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a Green Paper called “Promoting healthy diets and
physical activity: a European dimension for the pre-
vention of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases.”
This was followed in May 2007 by the Commission’s
white paper outlining strategies/initiatives in the area
of diet, physical activity, and health aimed at promot-
ing good health and quality of life and reducing risks
of disease. Nutrition is clearly recognized as having a
key role in public health and, together with lifestyle,
has a central position within the strategy and actions
of the Community in public health.

12.7 Perspectives on the future

The food we eat is an area of everyday life that is very
heavily regulated from the food safety point of view,
including chemical and microbial hazards, but
increasingly from the nutritional point of view. The
bedrock of sensible nutrition regulation planning is
the availability of good data and the intelligent use of
that data to both inform and challenge the policy-
makers. Globalization of the food supply has been
accompanied by evolving governance issues that have
produced a regulatory environment at the national
and global level led by large national, and interna-
tional agencies in order to facilitate trade and to
establish and retain the confi dence of consumers in
the food supply chain.

Further reading

Websites

BEUC European Consumers Organisation: http://www.beuc.
org/Content
CIAA: http://www.ciaa.be/asp/index.asp/
DG-SANCO: http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/dg24
EUROPA: http://europa.eu
European Commission: http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm
European Court of Justice: http://curia.europa.eu/en/index.htm
European Food Safety Authority: http://www.efsa.europa.eu
EUROPA Food and Feed Safety: http://ec.europa.eu/food/
index_en.htm
European Food Information Council: http://www.eufi c.org
Eur-Lex The portal to European Union Law: http://eur-lex.europa.
eu/en/index.htm

European Parliament: http://www.europarl.europa.eu

International Life Sciences Institute: http://www.ilsi.org

Institute of Food Science and Technology (IFST): http://www.ifst.

org

Food Standards Agency (FSA): http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk

European Food Information Council: http://www.eufi c.org

European Union: http://.europa.eu

EU food agencies

France – L’Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire des Aliments:

http://www.afssa.fr

Ireland – Food Safety Authority of Ireland: http://www.fsai.ie

Sweden – National Food Administration: http://www.slv.se

UK – Food Standards Agency: http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk

US sites

Arbor Nutrition Guide: http://www.arborcom.com/

Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (CDC): http://

http://www.cdc.gov

Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: http://www.cfsan.

fda.gov/list.html

Centre for Nutrition Policy and Promotion: http://www.usda.

gov/cnpp

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): http://www.epa.gov

Food and Drug Administration (FDA): http://www.fda.gov/default.

htm

Food and Nutrition Information Center, USDA: http://www.nal.

usda.gov/fnic

Food and Safety Inspection Service (FSIS): http://www.fsis.usda.

gov

Iowa State University Extension, including a Food Safety Project:

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety

Institute of Food Technologists – a non-profi t scientifi c society:

http://www.ift.org

United States Department of Health and Human Services: http://

http://www.os.dhhs.gov

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA): http://www.

usda.gov

Worldwide

Codex Alimentarius: http://www.codexalimentarius.net

Consumers International: http://www.consumersinternational.org

Dept. of Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada:

http://www.plant.uoguelph.ca/safefood

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO):

http://www.fao.org

Food Standards Australia New Zealand: http://www.foodstandards.

gov.au

International Food Information Council (IFIC): http://www.ifi c.

org

International Standards Organization (ISO): http://www.iso.ch

World Health Organization (WHO): http://www.who.int

World Trade Organization: http://www.wto.org