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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This WHO guideline provides practice- and science-informed global clinical and public health recommendations for the integrated management of obesity in...
This WHO guideline provides adoptable and adaptable, practice- and science-informed global clinical and public health recommendations on the integrated...
Implementation guidance on the management of wasting and nutritional oedema (acute malnutrition) in infants...
This implementation guidance supports governments and implementing organizations in adapting and adopting recommendations and good practice statements...
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Investing in breastfeeding saves lives and money
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 (SOFI) is the UN system’s flagship assessment of global hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition,...
Joint FAO/WHO expert meeting on microbiological risk assessment on powdered formula for infants and young...
A Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Microbiological Risk Assessment (JEMRA) on powdered formula for infants and young children was convened in Rome, Italy,...
