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 →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...
Strengthening surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases: introductory manual
This publication updates the document published in 2017 entitled “Strengthening surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases: introductory...
Strengthening surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases: stage one manual (part A): using indicator-...
This publication updates the document published in 2017 entitled “Strengthening surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases: a practical manual....
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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...
