Nutrition and Food Safety
The Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) aims to address the burden of unhealthy diets, malnutrition and foodborne diseases, by providing guidelines, integrated services, and technical support, embedding nutrition and food safety into health, economic, and environmental agendas, and promoting access to knowledge and care for everyone.

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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Publication cover_Standards for donor human milk banking

This document presents the World Health Organization’s global standards for donor human milk banking, developed to ensure the safety, quality and...

Pesticide residues in food: 2024: toxicological evaluations / 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

This volume presents the toxicological evaluations prepared by the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) following its meeting held in Rome,...

Safety evaluation of certain contaminants in food: prepared by the one hundred and first meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)

This monograph presents the safety evaluation of arsenic as a contaminant in food conducted by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)...

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Advocacy brief breastfeeding investment case cover

Investments in breastfeeding support yield some of the highest returns on human capital, yet proven, evidence-based interventions, including counselling,...

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026

The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2026 (SOFI) is the UN system’s flagship assessment of global hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition,...

A Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on powdered formula for infants and young children was convened in Rome, Italy,...