Food safety

Ensuring food safety requires a detailed plan for regulating and safeguarding food hygiene and quality during the event and ensuring that all steps in the food supply system are evaluated early and controlled for food safety and biosecurity.

Mass gatherings and public health: The experience of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games (Chapter 8: Food safety).  Tsouros AD, Efstathiou PA (Eds).  Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2007. http://www.euro.who.int/document/e90712.pdf

Last reviewed: 23 February 2010