Entries open for World Food Safety Day Poster Competition

Your target audience may be the general public, colleagues or peers, people working in the food industry or even policymakers. You may want to share information or advice – or you may want to encourage excitement or interest in a certain area of food safety science or demonstrate the relevance of your discipline to food safety. Posters should illustrate how:

• Science is fundamental to food safety, and/or
• Only “science in action” keeps food safe.

Benefits

• 5 posters in each category (30 posters) will be selected for the shortlist by the screening committee and notified on July 2025. Shortlisted candidates will receive a certificate for this achievement.
• Six winning poster designs will be selected as finalists by a jury in each category. The winning poster designs from all regions will be announced on the World Food Safety Day website.
• Winners will be promoted on FAO social media.
• Winners will also receive a Certificate of Recognition and a surprise gift bag.
• When winning posters are published, only the first initial, full family name and country of origin will be published. No other personal information about the Contestants will be published or shared.

Eligibility Criteria

• The Contest is open to students from 5 years old and above, living anywhere in the world.
• The age to declare on the entry form is the one at the time of entering the Contest.
• Minors must have the permission of their parents or legal guardians to participate in the Contest.

Ineligibility Criteria

• FAO and WHO employees and their immediate family members (spouses, parents, children, siblings and their respective spouses, regardless of where they live) or persons living in the same households of such employees, whether or not related, are not eligible to enter the contests.
• In the event that any of the selected winner(s) of any prize is/are ineligible in accordance with these Contest rules and/or the General Rules, Copyright and Privacy, cannot be traced, or refuses the prize, the prize will be forfeited and it will be in the sole discretion of FAO, as the lead organization in 2025, to choose whether to award the prize to another eligible entry.

Application Requirements

• Physical submissions will not be accepted, acknowledged or returned under any circumstances.
• Participation is free of charge.
• Only one entry should be submitted per person. Multiple entries from one person will result in disqualification.
• Poster entries may be drawn, painted or sketched using pens, pencils, crayons or charcoal, or using oil, acrylic or watercolour paint, as well as mixed media. Digitally created artwork is also permitted. No photographs are allowed.
• Participants may not submit any entries which include content generated by any generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool, including but not limited to photorealistic imagery, graphics or other artistic media. Participants are allowed to use AI technology for ideation or editing purposes.
• Whenever a participant uses AI technology for these or any other purposes, they shall disclose how such technology was specifically used. Should AI have been used in a way that is not compliant with these rules, FAO, as the lead organization in 2025, reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify the entry from the competition.
• Poster entries may or may not include text. If text is used, no more than 25 words or 100 characters can be accepted. Do not include personal information, such as names, school names or age, etc. Submissions will be accepted in all six UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).
• All artwork must be original and should not include logos or photographic images of the Contestant or other personal information.
• All participants are encouraged to read about the World Food Safety Day theme in the World Food Safety Day toolkit. Younger children may want to learn together with a parent or teacher.
• Posters can only be submitted using the entry form provided below. All fields in the Contest entry form must be completed and after uploading the poster design, the enter button must be clicked. Younger children may need help from an adult in making their online submission.
• Only digital files saved as a PDF will be accepted and submissions must be made through the online form provided – please do not send in physical posters.

For more information, visit FAO.