Segurança Sanitária dos Alimentos e Nutrição (FAN) - Links Relacionados
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1   Link   Codex Alimentarius Commision
The Codex Alimentarius Commission was created in 1963 by FAO and WHO to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO/WHO Food Standards Programme. The main purposes of this Programme are protecting health of the consumers and ensuring fair trade practices in the food trade, and promoting coordination of all food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations.
2   Link   Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information. We help developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since our founding in 1945, we have focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people.
3   Link   WHO/HQ/FOS
The Department of Food Safety and Zoonoses (FOS) strives to reduce the serious negative impact of foodborne diseases worldwide. Food and waterborne diarrhoeal diseases are leading causes of illness and death in less developed countries, killing approximately 2.2 million people annually, 1.9 million of whom are children.

Recent trends in global food production, processing, distribution and preparation are creating an increasing demand for food safety research in order to ensure a safer global food supply. FOS works with other WHO departments, Regional Offices and WHO collaborating centres as well as other international and national agencies. In particular, WHO works closely with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to address food safety issues along the entire food production chain--from production to consumption--using new methods of risk analysis. These methods provide efficient, science-based tools to improve food safety, thereby benefiting both public health and economic development. FOS endeavours to help all WHO Member States, both developing and developed, through the approaches outlined in the WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety.
4   Link   Codex Coordinating Committee for Africa (CCAFRICA)
CCAFRICA:
a. defines the problems and needs of the region concerning food standards and food control;
b. promotes within the Committee contacts for the mutual exchange of
information on proposed regulatory initiatives and problems arising from food control and stimulates the strengthening of food control infrastructures;
c. recommends to the Commission the development of worldwide standards for products of interest to the region, including products considered by the Committee to have an international market potential in the future;
d. develops regional standards for food products moving exclusively or
almost exclusively in intra regional trade;
e. draws the attention of the Commission to any aspects of the Commission’s work of particular significance to the region;
f. promotes coordination of all regional food standards work undertaken by international governmental and non-governmental organizations within the region;
g. exercises a general coordinating role for the region and such other functions as may be entrusted to it by the Commission;
h. promotes the use of Codex standards and related texts by members.
5   Link   WHO/HQ Nutrition
Nutrition is an input to and foundation for health and development. Interaction of infection and malnutrition is well-documented. Better nutrition means stronger immune systems, less illness and better health. Healthy children learn better. Healthy people are stronger, are more productive and more able to create opportunities to gradually break the cycles of both poverty and hunger in a sustainable way. Better nutrition is a prime entry point to ending poverty and a milestone to achieving better quality of life.