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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NFS newsletter Sep-Oct 2025 cover
This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in September and October 2025.

Key achievements

NFS key achievement 2023 pub cover
This brochure of our main 2023 achievements highlights the value of global health leadership in setting objectives, aligning partners, and driving change...

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Evaluation of certain food additives: one-hundredth report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives

The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on...

Risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in foods: part 2: Risk assessment: meeting report

The 52nd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) requested the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) to...

WHO guideline on fortification of edible oils and fats with vitamins A and D for public health

Vitamin A deficiency remains a leading cause of preventable blindness in children and also increases the risks of severe illness or death from infections....

Global nutrition targets 2030: topical briefs on maternal, infant and young child nutrition

Recognizing that the world is not on track to meet all of the 2025 global nutrition targets, WHO Member States, during the 78th World Health Assembly in...



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NFS newsletter Sep-Oct 2025 cover

This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in September and October 2025. 

Technical note administrative data child malnutrition publication cover

The purpose of this technical note is to provide evidence-based recommendations in the collection, quality assessment and analysis of individual-level...

Ad hoc Joint FAO-WHO Expert meeting November 2025 summary and conclusions cover

In response to the request from Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) for scientific advice on reference dose(s) (RfDs) and concentration for gluten...

This document was prepared in support of the publication "WHO reference protocol for measuring fatty acids in foods, with emphasis on monitoring trans-fatty...

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