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.

Vision and mission

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This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety undertook in March and April 2026.

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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Supporting healthy diets and safe foods in urban food environments

This WHO background document examines how urban food environments influence access to healthy diets and safe food, and how rapid urbanization is reshaping...

Ensuring competency for providers of breastfeeding support and care

This toolkit supports the verification of competencies among providers of evidence-based breastfeeding support and care, including health professionals,...

Pesticide residues in food: report 2025: Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues

This report presents the outcomes of the 2025 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), including evaluations of pesticide residues in food,...

Marketing of breast-milk substitutes: national implementation of the International Code, status report 2026

Inappropriate marketing of breast-milk substitutes remains a significant public health concern, with implications for breastfeeding practices and maternal...



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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...

Newsletter cover

This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety undertook in March and April 2026. 

JEMRA omics based technologies summary and conclusion pubcov

A Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on the use of omics-based technologies in microbiological risk assessment (MRA)...

Report for the 1st Asia-Pacific Region Workshop on Total Diet Studies cover

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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