In late February, the World Health Organization (WHO) held a Strategic Planning Meeting on Food Safety in Geneva, Switzerland. This meeting was a direct result of the 53rd World Health Assembly (WHA) meeting of May 2000. WHA resolved that food safety is an essential public health function, and supported a resolution by the Director General of WHO to give greater priority to food safety. WHA made several recommendations, one of which was for WHO to convene a preliminary strategic planning meeting…