Nutrition and Food Safety
The Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) Department is addressing the burden of disease from physical, chemical and microbial hazards in food and unhealthy diets, maternal and child malnutrition, overweight and obesity.
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2023 Newsletter
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13 April 2023
Nutrition and Food Safety News - April 2023
Before the Easter break, we would like to share with you our Key Achievements 2022 brochure and give you a quick update on what has happened in the first...
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10 July 2023
Red and processed meat in the context of health and the environment: many shades of red and green: information...
There is growing international consensus that food systems transformation is important to address the challenges of malnutrition in all its forms, the...
7 July 2023
Taking action to protect children from the harmful impact of food marketing: a child rights-based approach
This joint UNICEF and WHO publication aims to guide governments and partners through the steps to introduce policies to protect children from the harmful...
3 July 2023
WHO acceleration plan to stop obesity
At the 75th World Health Assembly in 2022, Member States adopted new recommendations for the prevention and management of obesity and endorsed the...
Children continue to be exposed to powerful food marketing, which predominantly promotes foods high in saturated fatty acids, trans-fatty acids, free sugars...
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This report is the annual global monitoring report documenting progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets 2.1 and 2.2. This year’s...
19 June 2023
Leaflet: The Health Service Delivery Framework for prevention and management of obesity
This short leaflet has been developed as a hand-out tool to inform in a concise way about the purpose and the approach of WHO’s new Health Service...
13 April 2023
Nutrition and Food Safety News - April 2023
Before the Easter break, we would like to share with you our Key Achievements 2022 brochure and give you a quick update on what has happened in the first...
WHO leadership, norm setting, policy guidance and monitoring has brought another good year of progress towards universal access to safe and sufficient...
