This year National Food Safety Week runs from Monday 7 June to Sunday 13 June 2010.
The theme this year is cooking food thoroughly at home and avoiding cross-contamination.
Food Safety Week will continue the GermWatch publicity first launched in 2008.
Cooking Thoroughly and Avoiding Cross-contamination
The week, which is organised by the Food Standards Agency, will focus on the most important actions associated with preventing campylobacter:
Reducing Campylobacter Foodborne Illness
Campylobacter causes the greatest number of cases of foodborne illness in the UK each year. There were about 55,000 reported cases of campylobacteriosis in the UK in 2008 but many more cases go unreported – the realistic number of cases is more likely to be closer to 375,000 each year.
The theme of Food Safety Week supports the FSA Strategy 2010-2015, which identifies reducing foodborne disease, particularly tackling campylobacter in chicken, as a key priority.
GermWatch Resources to Download
GermWatch materials and resources are available to download, including fun educational downloads for children - for details go to our GermWatch - Keeping Food Safe section in Related Pages.
More information about the 2010 week will be published here nearer the time.
