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World Food Prize goes to food safety scientist for preventing millions of cases of foodborne illness
Huub Lelieveld's six decades of work in hygienic food processing and global trade regulations have prevented millions of foodborne illnesses, the World Food Prize Foundation said.
- On Wednesday, The Iowa-based World Food Prize announced that Huub Lelieveld of the Netherlands earned this year's award, which includes a $500,000 prize for his food safety advancements.
- Lelieveld spent six decades advancing ways to improve food safety, founding the Global Harmonization Initiative in 2004 after four decades at Unilever developing hygienic production methods.
- Unsafe food causes 600 million foodborne illnesses and 420,000 deaths annually, according to the World Health Organization, motivating Lelieveld to replace what he called "illogical" chemical preservation methods.
- Drawing on a network of a few thousand scientists, the Global Harmonization Initiative facilitates food safety education globally, with Lelieveld stating, "You should not compete on food safety."
- Lelieveld said challenges for broad access to safe food and water persist, though he hopes to see systems where people can produce safe water locally, with distribution as the biggest challenge.
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Huub Lelieveld, a Dutch scientist pivotal in developing global food processing safety standards, has been awarded this year's World Food Prize. His efforts have significantly reduced foodborne illnesses and waste. Lelieveld's initiatives were essential in creating safer, more efficient food production methods that do not rely heavily on preservatives.
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World Food Prize goes to food safety scientist for preventing millions of cases of foodborne illness
Dutch food scientist Huub Lelieveld has won the World Food Prize for shaping modern food processing safety standards used worldwide.
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