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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All →Prioritizing food safety issues related to chemical water quality in agrifood systems
Reliable access to safe and sufficient water is critical to food security and protecting public health. However, water systems face unprecedented pressure...
Evaluation of certain food additives: one-hundredth report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food...
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...
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Nutrition and Food Safety News - September-October 2025
This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in September and October 2025.
The use of nutrition administrative data to generate population-level child malnutrition estimates: technical...
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 Consultation on Risk Assessment of Food Allergens – reference dose(s) for...
In response to the request from Codex Committee on Food Labelling (CCFL) for scientific advice on reference dose(s) (RfDs) and concentration for gluten...
