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Technical Advisory Group on Trans Fat Elimination and Validation: virtual meetings report, June-October 2023

The WHO Validation Programme for Trans Fat Elimination was established to recognize countries for having a normative framework in place to eliminate industrially-produced...

Pesticide residues in food: 2023: toxicological evaluations / Joint Meeting of the FAO Panel of Experts on Pesticide Residues in Food and the Environment and the WHO Core Assessment Group on Pesticide Residues

This publication is the toxicological monograph from the 2023 Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR). The annual Joint Meeting of the Food and Agriculture...

All for Health, Health for All: investment case 2025–2028

All for Health, Health for All is WHO’s third investment case and has been produced alongside the Fourteenth General Programme of Work (GPW 14) to...

Safety evaluation of certain food additives: prepared by the ninety-ninth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (‎JECFA)‎

The Ninety-ninth meeting of the Joint FAO/WHO Executive Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) was held in Geneva from 11 June to 20 June 2024. The purpose...