09 July 2026, Rome: Through the first week of June and beyond, the Indian food consulting company, Food Safety Works, ran a multi-city, multi-audience campaign spanning corporate workplaces, food handlers, students, and the wider food business community by reaching thousands of people with the message that food safety is everyone’s responsibility.
Bringing the message to corporate workplaces
Across several corporate campuses, the company partnered with client teams to turn cafeterias, pantries, and common areas into spaces for real engagement. Digital screens in dining areas and cooking stations carried the day’s theme alongside a practical guide, “How to achieve food safety at home,” covering seven everyday practices, from keeping surfaces clean to storing food outside the 5°C–60°C danger zone. Employees took part in food safety quizzes, myth-vs-fact polls, and daily one-minute awareness videos through the week, alongside sessions on hidden hygiene risks in everyday office life and QR-code-based education on handling foreign objects in food. Several workplaces also recognized their own “Food Safety Champions”, cafeteria and pantry staff whose everyday practices set the standard for the rest of the team. One campus event, reaching a workforce of 3000 employees, went a step further with a “Burden vs Solution” spin-the-wheel quiz, a Solution Star commitment wall, Food Safety Jeopardy, and a Global Burden Map activity connecting local action to global food safety challenges.
Carrying the conversation forward, Managing Director of Food Safety Works, Sarika Agarwal, delivered a dedicated session on 11 July at a client organization, built around this year’s theme, “From Burden to Solutions – Safe Food Everywhere.” The session walked participants through why reliable data on foodborne illness matters, how organisations can move from simply acknowledging food safety risks to acting on them through targeted, evidence-based measures, and what everyone in the food chain, from producers to consumers, can do to make safe food a shared, everyday reality.
Training with food handlers
At one of our client sites, the focus shifted to the people directly responsible for food safety on the ground. The programme opened with a Food Safety Oath, reinforcing every food handler’s personal commitment to hygiene standards, followed by an interactive quiz to sharpen awareness. A live demonstration of the correct sequence for donning Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) reinforced proper procedure in a hands-on, memorable way.
Engaging the next generation
Food Safety Works organized a National Food Safety Quiz Competition, a 30-minute online quiz held on 6 June for students pursuing Food Technology, Food Science, Microbiology, Nutrition, Hospitality, Biotechnology, and related disciplines. The response was strong with over 100 students from colleges across the country took part.
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