In this article, we'll present a guide to help you understand your role and responsibility in establishing high quality, clean and safe food in Australia, and who to contact if you need help interpreting the Food Standards Code. According to FSANZ, Australia ranks fourth in the world in food safety.
Australia has strict regulations and standards to make sure our foods are safe – whether local or imported. Read about Australia's standards, labelling and food safety.
In the data set for food safety, the U.S. got 99.3 percent while Israel and France both earned a 100 percent score.
1/ Okinawan diet – Japan
Widely considered to be one of the healthiest diets in the world, the Okinawan diet has numerous health benefits. So much so that Japan has the lowest obesity rates and second longest life expectancy of any developed country.
The Mediterranean Diet has long been touted as one of the world's healthiest diets. It follows the eating habits of Greece and Southern Italy, and has been shown to lower the risk of heart disease and early death.
Australia is one of the most food secure countries in the world, for several reasons. Australia produces much more food than it consumes, exporting around 70% of agricultural production. We do not produce everything we like to eat however, and imports account for around 11% of food consumption by value.
As noted above, there are many countries where hunger is widespread but where data is insufficient to properly rank them on the Global Hunger Index. In 2022, several countries rank around Yemen in terms of hunger levels. They include Burundi, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria.
Packaged food and drinks sold in India and China have been rated as the world's most unhealthy, in a new global survey.
1) Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)
26 million people (about the population of Texas) are severely hungry today and over 5 million people have been displaced from their homes. In 2022, we successfully scaled up to reach 6.2 million people throughout the country.
In the global list released of the best known cuisines of the world in the year 2022, Italy got the first place, followed by Greece and Spain in the second and third places respectively.
Australia has strict biosecurity controls to help minimise the risk of pests and diseases entering the country. All travellers must meet the requirements before entering Australia. You must declare certain food, plant material and animal products on your Incoming Passenger Card (IPC).
In Australia, food security is not measured at a population level regularly or consistently. However, estimates suggest that between 4% and 13% of the general population are food insecure; and 22% to 32% of the Indigenous population, depending on location.
In the charts we see the total number of people defined as severely food insecure. Globally, around 697 million were severely food insecure in 2018. More than half of those living with severe food insecurity were in Asia; nearly 40% were in Africa. the remaining 10% were split between the Americas, Europe and Oceania.
Australia may not be directly able to feed Asia or the world. But our know-how in food production has the potential to contribute to the diets of hundreds of millions of people around the globe.
Australia was ranked 32 out of 113 nations for food security, with a number of strengths including food safety net programs, protein quality, percentage of population under the global poverty line, agricultural import tariffs, market access, sufficiency of supply, and more.
Climate change and biosecurity concerns pose the greatest threat to Australia's food security and is pushing up food prices, according to farming groups.
The top ranked country, China, accounted for 47.3 % of vegetable consumption in the world.
Italy is the world's healthiest country, according to the CEOWORLD magazine ranking that uses data from the United Nations Population Division, the World Bank, the Lancet study, and the World Health Organisation, with Singapore coming at a close second.