This was announced on Monday by Nancy Fernandez, general director of the National Office for Standardization, who stressed about the importance of implementing the good practice guidelines throughout the food production, marketing and consumption chain.

According to Fernandez, more than 250 diseases are resulted from ingestion of unsafe food, and children are the most vulnerable to those diseases, which tend to occur more frequently in low-income countries.

The official said that Cuba has regulations whose aim is to guarantee the optimal state of the products consumed by man and there is great political will to pay attention to this topic.

Among the regulations, she mentioned the Policy for Food Safety, implemented since 2017, and also Decree Law 9, which establishes the principles to guarantee access to healthy and nutritious foodstuffs throughout the food chain, with an educational, preventive and comprehensive approach.

World Food Safety Day was established in 2018 by the United Nations General Assembly. The theme for this year is “Safer Food, Better Health.”

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