Codex Alimentarius Urged To Support Diet, Nutrition, Prevention

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Health Supreme Update: Codex Alimentarius Urged To Support

Diet, Nutrition, Prevention

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Health Supreme Update: Codex Alimentarius Urged To Support Diet,

Nutrition, Prevention

 

2006.04.27 16:17:30

 

 

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Codex Alimentarius has been reluctant to fulfill its

responsibilities of improving public health by nutrition and

diet. The international agency passed potentially restrictive

guidelines on food supplements in its 2005 plenary session but

it has now been asked to move towards a more positive policy.

In recently filed comments, South Africa has asked that the

agency's previous equivocal stand should give way to a clear

expression of support for the health of populations through

nutrition as a important preventive tool to reflect the World

Health Organisation's Global strategy on diet, physical

activity and health. Optimal health through nutrition is

foundational to the very purpose for which Codex exists. Image:

Codex...

 

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