About EatSmart BC
The goal of EatSmart BC is to help prevent illness and improve the health of British Columbians through combined food safety and healthy eating, public communication and education that is authoritative, motivating, practical, accessible, and effective. The objectives are to:
- Increase awareness of food safety and healthy eating;
- Increase food safety and healthy eating knowledge and skills; and
- Improve food safety and healthy eating attitudes and behaviours.
The EatSmart BC project will build on the success of the provincial FOODSAFE training program, which has issued over 450,000 certificates since its inception almost 20 years ago.
The EatSmart BC website will serve as a directory to several other food safety and nutrition based Web sites. This will help provide users with quick, up to date, and easily accessible information regarding the most important health and food safety related issues.
The initiative will be guided by the FOODSAFE Steering Committee.