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The European Union supports food safety - #EUChooseSafeFood. Announced on 7 June on the occasion of World Food Safety Day, the campaign has now officially started and will continue until October 2021.

 

The information they contain is a European requirement and can help you make the right daily food choice.

 

 

A lot of information on these issues is published on the official website of the campaign, and a kit of communication resources is made available that users and organizations can share within their web and social channels to support the campaign.

 

 

View the website    #EUChooseSafeFood »

 

 

 

 

The campaign in Italy

 

 

EFSA's campaign will last three years: in the first year, 6 Member States (Austria, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Poland and Spain) will lead the way, and then subsequently involve the other Member States through word of mouth and stakeholder engagement.

 

La campagna di EFSA durerà tre anni: il primo anno 6 Stati membri (Austria, Croazia, Italia, Lettonia, Polonia e Spagna) faranno da apripista, per poi successivamente coinvolgere gli altri Stati membri attraverso il passaparola e il coinvolgimento degli stakeholder.

 

In Italy, a country that hosts the EFSA headquarters and with a strong and deep-rooted sensitivity to food issues, the campaign will develop with a communication plan based on:

 

 

• advertising on the main offline and online media;

 

• press office activities with generalist and specialized media;

 

• involvement of influencers and sector stakeholders, also thanks to interviews and expert testimonials.

 

 

 The campaign is supported by the Ministry of Health through the collaboration between:

 

• the Italian focal point of EFSA, set up at the Directorate General for Collegiate Bodies and Health Protection - Office III;

 

•  The Italian Member of the Communication Experts Network of EFSA, currently at the  l’Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie;

 

• the communication agency Mailander.

 

The communication agency Among the topics covered by the campaign, Italy has chosen to investigate those relating salmonella, reading labels, allergens and food hygiene.

 

 

 

The press conference to present the campaign was held on Thursday 9 September, with the interventions of institutional representatives of EFSA and the Ministry of Health. The themes and objectives of the campaign will also be presented at the Food Journalism Festival, scheduled for September 24 in Turin.

 

 

 

Campaign communication resources

 

 

 

The campaign communication kit consists of the following materials, available in the national language of each member state.

 

• Campaign presentation - a document provides an overview of the topic of food safety in Europe, as well as the campaign's objectives, target audience and ways to support it.

 

• Infographics - with concise information on product labels, allergens and food hygiene.

 

• Images and videos for social media posts - to be shared using the official hashtag of the #EUChooseSafeFood campaign and mentioning the official EFSA social channels (Twitter: @EFSA_EU Instagram: @efsa_eu / LinkedIn: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).

 

 

 

Support the EFSA campaign by sharing these materials on your web and social channels, using the hashtag:

 

#EUChooseSafeFood

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: EFSA; IZSVe