Nutrition Working Group

Co-chairs

Iuliana Vintila
Romania

Viduranga Waisundara
Sri Lanka

Communication:
Dr. Sunita Singh
India

Mission

The mission of the Nutrition Working Group (WG) is to strive for evidence-based global harmonization of nutrition regulations and legislation. The goal is to publish a nutrition white paper that discusses global, consistent nutrition policy with an action plan on nutrition and recommendations for harmonization of dietary guidance.

Topics & Objectives

The Nutrition WG plans to develop a white paper to stimulate worldwide agreement on dietary guidance appropriate within the framework of existing international food safety laws and regulations to:

• Offer recommendations for global harmonization of nutrition labeling and health claims
• Provide expertise to advise on the elimination of differences in international nutrition guidelines, regulations and legislation
• Harmonize education for nutritional health and training standards

Members

Additionally to the co-chairs above, this Working Group consists of 13 members.

Meetings

Dates, times and locations to be announced.

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