Today is World Food Safety Day—Watch why safe food matters are life-and-death matters to poor people worldwide

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Today, 7 Jun 2019,

is the first-ever

World Food Safety Day!

#WorldFoodSafetyDay

Here, for your pleasure and instruction, are three short videos highlighting Delia Grace, a veterinary epidemiologist at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), on the importance improving the safety of foods, particularly livestock-derived foods (meat, offal, milk and eggs) produced, sold and consumed by poor people across the developing world.

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