IXON joins Food Systems Game Changers Lab to fight foodborne diseases

Food Systems Game Changers Lab, a multi-phase accelerator program organized by EAT, IDEO, Thought for Food and the Rockefeller Foundation, has selected IXON as one of eight startups to join its “Promoting Food Safety & Traceability” cohort. Over the next 12 weeks, we will work together with entrepreneurs, food system experts and organizations around the globe to build impactful, actionable and sustainable solutions for tackling foodborne diseases in support of the United Nations Food Systems Summit 2021.

“According to the World Health Organization, foodborne diseases result in 600 million illnesses and 420,000 deaths in the world every year,” says Felix Cheung, founder and CEO of IXON. “The Food Systems Game Changers Lab empowers us to solve this problem by building unconventional partnerships and providing us with systems thinking toolsets.”

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Food Systems Game Changers Lab 是一個由EAT、IDEO、Thought for Food 和洛克菲勒基金會組織的多階段加速器計劃，IXON 很幸運地被選為加入「促進食品安全和可追溯性」團隊的八家初創公司之一。在接下來的12 星期，我們將與全球的企業家、糧食系統專家和組織合作，為應對食源性疾病制定有影響力、可操作和可持續的解決方案，以支持2021年聯合國糧食系統峰會。

IXON 創始人兼執行董事張文浩先生表示：「據世界衛生組織估計，食源性疾病每年導致全球6 億人患病和42 萬人死亡。 Food Systems Game Changers Lab 通過建立非常規合作夥伴關係並提供系統思維工具箱，使我們能夠解決這個問題。」

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