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. The Department aims to ensure universal access to safe, sufficient nutritious food and effective nutrition actions, through setting science-based international food standards, promoting nutrition action in health systems, fostering sustainable food production and consumption, improving food environments and empowering consumers in all situations, monitoring nutrition status, and managing food safety events at the international level, closely working with Member States, UN partner agencies and non-State actors.
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Vision
A world free from all forms of malnutrition and foodborne diseases, within safe and supportive societies and healthy environments.
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Key achievements
WHO leadership, norm setting, policy guidance and monitoring has brought another good year of progress towards universal access to safe and sufficient...
Despite the continued challenges faced from COVID-19 throughout the year, 2021 brought many opportunities for Nutrition and Food Safety...
Department of Nutrition and Food Safety achievements 2020
By bringing nutrition and food safety together, WHO is better positioned to respond to the double burden of malnutrition and its determinants. Through...
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