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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A Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues (JMPR)...
WHO global anaemia estimates: key findings, 2025
The brief on key findings from the 2025 edition of the WHO anaemia estimates provides a snapshot of the current status of anaemia among women aged 15–49...
Levels and trends in child malnutrition: UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Group joint child malnutrition estimates:...
Child malnutrition estimates for the indicators stunting, severe wasting, wasting and overweight describe the magnitude and patterns of under- and overnutrition. ...
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Nutrition and Food Safety News - May-June 2025
This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in May and June 2025.
This report is the annual global monitoring report for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets 2.1 and 2.2 – to end hunger, food insecurity...
Ad hoc Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens – guidance for risk assessment
At the request of Codex, FAO and WHO held a series of expert meetings, beginning in 2020, on the risk assessment of food allergens and published the meeting...
