Every day, 1.6 million people around the world fall ill due to unsafe food, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned today, urging stronger global efforts to ensure food safety through science-based policies and practices, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

“Food safety is a global responsibility,” said Simone Moraes Raszl, the scientist at WHO’s Nutrition and Food Safety Department, during a UN press briefing in Geneva ahead of World Food Safety Day on Saturday.

“These illnesses are...