Reduction of trans fatty acids in food from 40 to 2%

According to the Fars news agency’s health group, Faramarz Khodayian said at the World Food Safety Day conference in Tehran’s Shahid Rajaee Heart Hospital conference hall: Food safety is very important, as unsafe food causes the death of 250,000 people in the world every year.

Pointing out that 820 million people in the world sleep hungry every night, he added: “In 2050, the world’s population will exceed 9 billion people, and we need as much food as 10,000 years ago to supply these people.”

He considered food security as the future challenge of the world and stated: In 2004, more than 160 countries of the world approved that food is not a commodity and is one of the people’s rights.

Director General of Food and Beverage Products Department of Food and Drug Organization said: One of the pillars of good governance in the world is food supply. Food security depends on food safety, so the United Nations has declared June 7th as Food Safety Day.

Khodayian announced the theme of this year’s World Food Safety Day as “food standards can save lives” and said that more than 200 diseases are transmitted through food and 600 million people get sick every year because of food and 420 thousand people They die and 40% of the world’s children get sick from food.

Stating that 100 billion dollars are spent annually on food safety in the world, he said: “Last year was a record low year for the Food and Drug Organization in terms of setting standards.”

The Director General of the Department of Food and Beverage Products of the Food and Drug Organization stated: For the first time, all the poisons in the country were registered and all of them were set. More than 17 thousand MRLs were determined and notified. Also, many guidelines and rules were compiled or updated and announced.

Khodaian added: We have 6 strategic food products, for which in 1401, a total of 7,380 basic product clearance licenses were issued, which was about 6,251 licenses in 1400.

Stating that sampling and issuance of clearance permits are done with an average time of one day, he said: Monitoring of agricultural toxins, pesticides and heavy metals is done in the amount of 18,000 cases for 12 groups of food products.

Director General of Food and Beverage Products Department of Food and Drug Organization stated: Monitoring and inspection ensures food safety. In 1401, we had as many as 54 thousand inspections, which in 1400 was about 20 thousand inspections.

Khodayian added: Monitoring and evaluation at the level of supply has increased from 8038 cases in 1400 to 23511 cases in 1401.

Regarding the supervision and monitoring of the issuance of consumption licenses in the TTech system, he said: the consumption licenses issued have increased from 7,000 in 1997 to more than 14,500 in 1402. In 1401, there were more than 13,600 issued evaluation permits.

The Director General of the Department of Food and Beverage Products of the Food and Drug Organization announced that the identification of products increased from 20,116,000 last year to 28,222,000.

At the end of presenting the draft of the food supply chain management document to the Supreme Council of Health and Food Safety, determining and developing operations that can be outsourced, developing the process of delegating affairs and decentralization, revising the rules and executive guidelines, and interacting and understanding with trade unions are special measures of the organization. Food and Drug announced last year in the field of food safety.

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