Delivering safe food for better health starts from the farm to the plate

Meshack Nyambane inspects beans at his farm in Birongo, Kisii County. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

World Food Safety Day was celebrated yesterday. This year’s theme, “Safer food, better health” highlights the role safe nutritional food plays in ensuring human health and well-being and calls for a set of specific actions to make food safer.

Food safety starts on the farm and ends with the consumer. Aligning interventions along the commodity value chain ensures that food is produced and processed in a clean and healthy environment, thus guaranteeing the consumers a healthy diet.