Cyprus setting up food safety authority to promote data-based solutions

The government is promoting a National Food Safety Authority, which will be tasked with coordinating and supervising official controls by services and laboratories, and drafting a unified national strategy for food safety and hygiene throughout the food chain, Health Minister Neophytos Charalambides said on Monday.

Marking World Food Safety Day, celebrated on June 7, Charalambides said the day “reminds us that access to safe and quality food is not only a basic prerequisite for ensuring public...