Food Standards Agency: nutrition

Food Standards Agency: nutrition.

The Food Standards Agency undertakes a range of activities with the aim of improving the dietary health of the population and determining how best to communicate key messages to achieve dietary change. Activities include obtaining sound evidence from research and surveys, and seeking advice from independent experts. Work is also undertaken to inform and motivate the population about diet and to...

Food standards and nutrition.

The Food and Drugs Act 1955 This Act contains a number of general provisions that relate directly or indirectly to nutrition. Section I provides that no person shall add anything to or abstract anything from food, or subject food to any other process or treatment, so as to render it injurious to health. Section 2 makes it an offence to sell food to the prejudice of the purchaser that is not of ...

Final Report for Food Standards Agency

Workshop on funding opportunities within the Food Standards Agency.

During this workshop, held as part of a joint Nutrition Society and Food Standards Agency (Agency) meeting on Micronutrient interactions and public health, several precepts for a successful funding application to the Agency were discussed. These precepts, many of which can be used as guiding principles for project proposals to other funding bodies, are summarised as follows: remember that the A...

UK Food Standards Agency a-linolenic acid workshop report

Peter Sanderson*, Yvonne E. Finnegan, Christine M. Williams, Philip C. Calder, Graham C. Burdge, Stephen A. Wootton, Bruce A. Griffin, D. Joe Millward, Nicholas C. Pegge and Wanda J. E. Bemelmans Nutrition Division, Food Standards Agency, Aviation House, 125 Kingsway, London WC2 6NH, UK Hugh Sinclair Unit of Human Nutrition, School of Food Biosciences, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Bo...