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 →Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the one-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO...
The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on...
Microbiological risk assessment of viruses in foods: part 2: prevention and intervention measures: meeting...
In response to a request from the 53rd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk...
Policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments: WHO guideline
Children spend a large share of their day in school, making it a critical setting for shaping lifelong dietary habits and reducing health and nutrition...
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This summary report contains key extracts of the results of the 2025 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), which are provided to make them...
Nutrition and Food Safety News - September-October 2025
This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in September and October 2025.
The use of nutrition administrative data to generate population-level child malnutrition estimates: technical...
The purpose of this technical note is to provide evidence-based recommendations in the collection, quality assessment and analysis of individual-level...
