14th Dubai International Food Safety Conference commences online

Dubai: Dubai Municipality on Sunday launched the 14th Dubai International Food Safety
Conference virtually under the slogan "Building resilient and sustainable food systems"
which is being held on 29 th and 30 th November 2020.

The Municipality has enriched the conference's agenda with a variety of seminars and
discussion sessions, which highlight the most prominent solutions to food security
challenges, as the Municipality is keen to ensure the achievement of the desired goals of
the activities of this important global conference.

The conference seminars, which is being participated by a group of prominent
international speakers, will deal with a range of the most prominent topics in the field of
food safety, food security, food sustainability, nutrition and the use of modern technology
to enhance of all of these.

The conference showcases best practices and experiences from several countries
including US, Canada, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. One of the highlights of the event is
relevant to the current situation – building resilience during the pandemic, bringing
experiences from Arab and regional countries as well as stories from other parts of the
world in dealing with food security challenges during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Her Excellency Mariam bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Al Muheiri, Minister of Food
Security in the UAE inaugurated the conference. The first day of the conference discussed
food security challenges as well as the role of sustainable diets that contribute to
promoting human and planetary health, harnessing technical and technological
development in the field of food security, and the most prominent solutions and initiatives
that have been applied to overcome food wastage.

Day two of the conference will feature prominent speakers from the Codex Alimentarius
commission, United States Food and Drug Administration and Saudi Food and Agriculture
organization. In addition to that numerous scientists will present their research work at the
event.
The seminars shed light on the exceptional efforts of the UAE in the field of nutrition, the
safety evaluation of recycled plastic materials and articles intended to come in contact

with food, the safety assessment of food additives, in addition to discussing the
importance of forecasting and studying natural factors to reduce their impact on food
security, such as climate change, epidemics, floods and rain rate, as well as harnessing
the use of advanced technologies in agricultural production with the aim of increasing and
improving the quality of production, developing post-harvest mechanisms to reduce waste,
and applying best practices in transport and storage operations.