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Summary of Nutrition and Food Safety News (October 2023)

Core Content

The document provides a summary of key activities and publications from the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) at the World Health Organization (WHO) between July and September 2023, highlighting efforts in nutrition, food safety, and food systems transformation.

Main Activities and Publications

1. Food Marketing and Children's Health

• July 2023: The WHO launched new guidelines to protect children from the harmful effects of food marketing, emphasizing the need for stronger policies.
• A joint toolkit with UNICEF was released to help countries implement these guidelines based on children's rights.

2. Healthy Diets and Obesity Prevention

• July 13, 2023: WHO and FAO co-hosted a launch event for the WHO healthy diet guidelines and the FAO-WHO concept of healthy diets.
• The guidelines focus on reducing unhealthy weight gain and diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and certain cancers.
• A brochure summarizing the WHO acceleration plan to stop obesity was also released.

3. Healthy Food Environments at Sports Events

• August 24, 2023: A guide on healthy food at sports events was launched in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of Qatar.
• Two webinars were held in August and September to discuss the implementation of healthier food environments at sports events.

4. Food Safety

• July 2023: A new fact sheet on food safety aspects of cell-based foods was published.
• A report from the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in foods was released.
• An information brief on red and processed meat in the context of health and the environment was also published.
• A video titled "WHO's Science in 5: Do sweeteners help with weight loss?" was released, discussing non-sugar sweeteners.

5. UN Food Systems Summit + 2 (UNFSS+2)

• July 24-26, 2023: The Summit Stocktaking Moment was held in Rome, with WHO continuing to advocate for nutrition and health in food systems transformation.
• Key events included:
  • A keynote by the WHO Director-General on the Mediterranean diet.
  • A high-level Leadership Dialogue on Food Systems for People's Nutrition and Health, featuring examples from Kenya, Mexico, and other countries.

6. Food (In)Security

• The 2023 annual report by FAO, IFAD, UNICEF, WFP, and WHO revealed that 122 million more people were pushed into hunger since 2019 due to multiple crises.

7. Collaborating Centres and Training

• July 2023: The WHO/Cochrane/Cornell Summer Institute for Systematic Reviews in Nutrition was held, with 25 participants from all WHO regions.
• The Institute included both virtual and in-person components, with training in systematic reviews using the Cochrane methodology and the GRADE tool.
• The event was supported by experts from WHO, Cochrane, and Cornell University, and it has contributed to global policies and guidelines since its establishment in 2014.

Key Information and Calls for Action

• Calls for data and contributions:
  • Call for authors on systematic reviews of donor human milk banking processes (Deadline: 5 November 2023).
  • Call for experts to develop a guideline on the consumption of tropical oils (Deadline: 16 November 2023).
  • First global call for data on gestational weight gain (Deadline: 1 December 2023).
  • Request for data on cadmium and lead in quinoa and quinoa-based products (Deadline: 15 December 2023).
  • Call for data for the Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues 2024 (Deadline: 20 December 2023).

Conclusion

The Department of Nutrition and Food Safety at WHO has been actively engaged in promoting healthier diets, preventing obesity, ensuring food safety, and transforming food systems to better serve nutrition and health. Collaborations with FAO, UNICEF, and other organizations have been central to these efforts, and the release of new guidelines and tools underscores the ongoing commitment to global health and nutrition.