Food Security

Food Safety

Food safety is the assurance that food will not cause harm to the consumer when it is prepared and/or eaten according to its intended use.

• Guidelines for strengthening national food control systems (full document, quick guide)
• Climate change and food safety
• Food safety: Western Pacific Regional Strategy
• FAO/WHO Guidelines for strengthening national food control systems (English, French, Chinese)
• Mercury levels in Fijian seafoods and potential health implications
• Chloropropanol data from Fiji
• Chloropropanols review for the Ministry of Health Fiji

Food Quality

Throughout the Pacific obesity and serious non-communicable diseases have emerged as a result of lifestyle changes and the trend towards increased consumption of imported foods, foods of poor nutritional quality and a neglect of traditional food systems. Alongside the growing problem of non-communicable diseases micronutrient deficiencies still exist. More local production, reducing the salt, fat and sugar content of imported foods and fortifying foods with appropriate nutrients will help improve food quality.

• Diet, food supply and obesity in the Pacific
• Lifestyle diseases in Pacific communities
• Prevalence of diabetes mellitus and population attributable fractions for coronary heart disease and stroke mortality in the WHO South-East Asia and Western Pacific regions
• Legislative interventions to prevent and decrease obesity in Pacific Island countries
• A study on regulatory requirements for food fortification in the Pacific
• Improving diets and controlling communicable diseases: Ways forward for the Pacific Islands
• The role of business in addressing the long-term implications of the current food crisis (Yach, Derek.  Globalization and Health 2008, 4:12.)
• Food and nutrition security - a position paper with emphasis on food and nutrition security of mothers and children

Links

Asian Development Bank

Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health (AWASH)

Caribbean Community Secretariat

Codex Alimentarius

Food and Agriculture Organization
Food and Agriculture Organization Pacific
Food and Agriculture Organization - Food Safety

FAO/WHO Coordinating Committee for North America and the South West Pacific

Global Health Institute

INFOSAN

Pacific Food Safety Initiative
Pacific Food Safety Initiative - Legislation

Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

Secretariat of the Pacific Community

UNICEF Pacific Island Countries

World Bank

WHO Western Pacific Region
WHO Western Pacific Region - Food Safety
WHO South Pacific

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