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.

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.

Our work

Publications

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Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the one-hundredth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

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 report

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...

Policies and interventions to create healthy school food environments: WHO guideline

Children spend a large share of their day in school, making it a critical setting for shaping lifelong dietary habits and reducing health and nutrition...

Documents

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JMPR summary report 2025 thumbnail cover

This summary report contains key extracts of the results of the 2025 Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), which are provided to make them...

NFS newsletter Sep-Oct 2025 cover

This edition of the NFS Newsletter features key activities we undertook in September and October 2025. 

Technical note administrative data child malnutrition publication cover

The purpose of this technical note is to provide evidence-based recommendations in the collection, quality assessment and analysis of individual-level...