营养与食品安全新闻-2025年9月至10月

Dear subscribers Welcome to our Nutrition and Food Safety Newsletter. In this issue, we presentnew publications, notable meetings, events and key campaigns in the field ofnutrition and food safety that took place in September and October, and upcomingdates to watch for. For more information, please click on the related links. Publications Global Nutrition Targets 2030 information briefs WHO and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)havedeveloped six thematic briefs on stunting,anaemia, low birth weight, childhood overweight,breastfeeding and child wasting, each addressingarespective target and outlining the nutritioninterventionsrequired to achieve it.During the78thWorld Health Assembly in 2025,WHOMember States passed a resolution to extend the2025 global nutrition targets to 2030. Learnmore about the current status and therationale for the extension of the targetshere. Trans fat elimination opinion piece Before the United Nations General Assembly high-level meetingon noncommunicable diseases in September, Ministers of Healthfrom Austria, Norway, Oman and Singapore, together with theWHODirector-GeneralDrTedrosAdhanomGhebreyesus,publishedan opinion piece calling for urgent, decisive action toeliminateindustrially produced trans fats worldwide.Availablealso inArabic,ChineseandSpanish. Codex Trust Fund country story:Burkina Faso CodexTrust Fund Burkina Faso country story,published inSeptember 2025, reveals significant impact from the Trust Fundproject started in 2019. Also available inFrench. Other WHO publications WHO guidelines on tuberculosisand undernutrition Global investment case fornoncommunicable diseases WHOpublishednewguidelinesontuberculosis(TB)and undernutrition,aspart of the WHO consolidated guidelinesontuberculosis.Undernutrition remainsone of the most significant drivers of theTB epidemic globally. WHOhasreleasedtheupdatedinvestmentcaseforpreventionandcontrolof NCDs:Saving lives,spendingless.It shows that policies to reduceunhealthy diets offer the highest return,with a 14:1 ratio. WHO Academy launches a new BehaviouralCounselling course TheWHO Academy has launched a new free BehaviouralCounselling course, available in English, designed for healthcare providers worldwide. This course helps support patients inimproving their physical and mental health by helping themto: eat a healthier diet; increase physical activity; stop usingtobacco and quit or drink less alcohol. Events Country voices on trans fatelimination: Policies in action Awards to recognize countryaction on obesity crisis On 16 October 2025, the WHO Nutritionand Food Systems Community of Practicehostedan Expert Hour on trans fatelimination,Country voices on trans fatelimination:Policiesinaction.SaudiArabia,Singapore and Thailand sharedtheirpracticalexperiencesinimplementing,monitoring and enforcingtrans fat elimination policies. Twelve countries and seven non-Stateactorspioneeringinnovative,multisectoralactiononobesitywererecognizedby the United Nations Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention andControlof Noncommunicable Diseases(UNIATF)duringaneventon25September in New York. Actions includeboldfiscal policies such as taxes forsugar-sweetened beverages and cutting-edgedigital tools,demonstrating howdiversestrategiescancreatelastingimpact. Want to learn more about NFS at the8Oth Session of the UN GeneralAssembly and Climate Week NYC? Click here Innovations in foodborne diseasesurveillance and food contaminationmonitoring On the occasion of the annual general meeting(AGM),WHO Alliance for Food Safety hosted apublicwebinar on 28 October 2025 showcasinginnovationsshaping the future of foodbornediseasesurveillance and food contaminationmonitoring.Experts from Canada,the UnitedKingdomand Oman shared their experience inapplyingadvances in laboratory science,digitaltechnologiessuch as artificial intelligence andresearch to strengthen surveillance and improvefoodsafety outcomes.The recording passcode:+Tx1iXwf The 56th session of the Codex Committee onPesticides Residues The Committee held its meeting in Santiago, Chile on 8-13 September 2025. It has completed the work begunin2021onthedevelopmentofcomprehensive,harmonized guidance for laboratories on monitoring thestability and purity of the pesticide reference materialsfor their possible use beyond expiry dates. Annual meeting: International Liaison Group onMethods for Risk Assessment of Chemicals inFood and Feed ILMERAC,a network of around 30 governmental andintergovernmentalorganisations,held its meeting onthefuture of risk assessment on 1 October 2025 inGeneva, Switzerland, co-organised by the WHO and theGerman Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR). AsessiononNewApproachMethodologies(NAMs)highlighteddifferent approaches taken worldwide toadvance the regulatory acceptance. Annual general meeting of theWHO Alliance for Food Safety 101st Joint FAO/WHO ExpertCommittee on Food Additives On 15–21 October 2025, WHO hosted theJointFAO/WHO Expert Committee on