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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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,...

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 Expert Committee on Food Additives

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 the response

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...