Food Risks related to COVID-19

Affecting more than 210 countries in the world, the COVID-19 outbreak is still highly evolving and uncertain in its final magnitude. To contain the pandemic, entire cities and regions have ordered a collective quarantine, stopping most of the local economic activity.

In this context, food facilities and retailers are considered as critical infrastructures, absolutely essential to people well-being as well as public health.

This document contains the current available information about this pandemic impacts on the food chain and the measures to adopt in response.