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 →Responsive feeding is part of nurturing care and an essential aspect of adequate childhood nutrition and responsive caregiving. This brief is...
Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the one-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO...
The One-hundredth meeting of the Joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on...
Microbiological risk assessment of viruses in foods: part 2: prevention and intervention measures: meeting...
In response to a request from the 53rd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH), the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk...
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Joint FAO/WHO expert meeting on microbiological risk assessment on the use of omics-based technologies...
A Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on the use of omics-based technologies in microbiological risk assessment (MRA)...
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...
This communication toolkit was developed by WHO and FAO to present information about World Food Safety Day 2026 and this year’s theme, and to...
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