Monitoring Nutritional status and Food safety events (MNF)
The Monitoring Nutritional status and Food safety events (MNF) Unit defines indicators and nutrition surveillance systems, hosts and maintain nutrition databases, monitors nutrition trends and measures the impact of country food and nutrition policies. The Unit manages INFOSAN and collaborates with WHE for the management of major food safety events including PHEICs.
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All →SHAKE the salt habit, 2nd ed.
The document outlines a structured approach to developing a comprehensive sodium reduction strategy, including preparatory steps such as establishing governance...
Evaluation of certain contaminants in food: one-hundred-and-first meeting report of the Joint FAO/WHO...
OverviewThe one-hundred-and-first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Geneva from 15 to 21 October 2025....
The WHO acceleration plan to stop obesity: a joint WHO/UNICEF operational model for designing and implementing...
Obesity is one of the most urgent public health challenges of our time. In 2022, more than 1 billion people worldwide were living with obesity, a number...
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This FAO/WHO workshop in China (September 2025) brought together over 60 experts from 11 countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America to address and...
Joint FAO/WHO expert meeting on microbiological risk assessment on the use of omics-based technologies...
A Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on the use of omics-based technologies in microbiological risk assessment (MRA)...
With our diet, we ingest many substances every day, which can either be beneficial or potentially harmful. The chronic exposure to some of these substances...
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