Nutrition organisations, home pages, nutrition in government, nutrition in hospital

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NUTRITION GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS
Australian
North America
Other countries
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Note: See also the individual subject sections, as a lot of organisations are only listed there , e.g. :

Food security organisations
Nutrition research organisations

AUSTRALIA (and NZ)

Australian Centre for International & Tropical Health & Nutrition
Strong public health and Asia-Pacific focus in research and teaching. Offers Master of Community Nutrition degree, with an international and publilc health perspective.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Does research into the health and social security systems. Their site has some excellent on-lien publications on these topics, including lots of public health nutrition information.

Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA)
The regulatory advisory body serving the two Australasian governments. The site has Information on what it does and its internal structure, as well as information circulars and their newsletter Food Regulation Review. See also the relevant authorising legislation, and the legislative provision for the inclusion of New Zealand in this organisation.

CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition
Information about the Division, search engine for CSIRO public documents, some nutrition related links.
CSIRO Division of Food Science and Technology
Information on the CSIRO and on this Division.
Commonwealth Dpt. of Human Services and Health

Commonwealth Department of Primary Industries and Energy: PIEnet
Responsibilities include quarantine and therefore food safety, as well as agriculture. Some useful on-line reports on microbial food safety, agribusiness etc. The web site (PIEnet) is searchable.
National Health & Medical Research Council
Organisational details, current publications and draft documents for public consultation (not many up as yet).
Food Victoria
"Food Victoria is a major initiative of the Victorian State Government which brings together key personnel from industry and government to increase the international competitiveness of the food and food processing industries." Plain text departmental details only.
Victorian Health Department: Public Health Branch
A range of activities described and documents on-line. This includes report into health status of Victorians, the Division's newsletter HealthFocus, and the full text of a review of antioxidant supplementation.
Vichealth
Web site of the health promotion organisation that the Victorian government funds in part from cigarette taxes, it is active in various fields of health promotion, including nutrition, anti-smoking and providing Internet resources for health promotion. It has a good search engine for Victorian government and other web resources.
Public Health Dpt, Western Australia
Some focus on public health nutrition, including alcohol abuse, folate and general lay nutrition information leaflets.

NZ Ministry of Health: Public Health Group
Responsible for a lot of NZ's national food policy, this web site has access to a number of full text .pdf format reports on nutrition and health guidelines, including for children, pregnant and breastfeeding women.
Ministray of Agriculture and Fisheries: New Zealand
A lively and interesting web site, with news releases, special sections on particular industries (e.g. meat, dairy, seafood etc. and links.

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OTHER COUNTRIES

European Commission: Europa
Europa is the name given to the EC's web server. It has a WAIS Search engine to help locate the many documents related to public health nutrition, food law, agriculture etc.
Ministries of Agriculture in Europe
The following is a list of some of these government departments:
  • Austria: Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: has English section
  • Belgium: including Agricultural Research Institute
  • Finland: entirely in Finnish
  • France: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries: has a special section on food
  • Germany: Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Forests: see German section
  • Holland: Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries: has an English section.
  • Ireland: Dpt. Agriculture and Food: good links to other European sites.
  • Italy: Ministero per le Politiche Agricole: entirely in Italian.
  • Lithuania: ÞEMËS ÛKIO MINISTERIJOS: barest of information.
  • Malta:: Ministry for Agriculture and Fisheries: in English.
  • Morocco: there is also a Ministry of Ocean Fisheries
  • Spain: Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación: in Spanish, with links, reports and publications.
  • Sweden: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

    Central America: Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP)
    Organiation doing public health and epidemiological work as collaborative effort of governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama. Site in Spanish and English versions has organisational and project information.

    Croatia: Institute for Medical Research:Laboratory of Mineral Metabolism
    Plain text, brief outline of their research interests in mineral toxicology.
    Denmark: National Food Agency
    Links, publications, and other organisational information all in Danish.
    France: Le ministère de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche
    In French, this government web site has information on food and agriculture industryin France, and on research and other government progams in this area, There are some publications available as well, for example in the food safety area.

    German Federal Research Centre for Nutrition
    Mainly organisation information.
    India: National Institute of Nutrition
    Information on objectives and research interests.
    Italy: Istituto Nazionale della Nutrizione
    Japan: National Institute of Health and Nutrition: Division of Food Science
    Organisational information.
    Japan: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
    Information in English
    Malaysia: Agrolink (Dpt.Agriculture)
    Information on agriculture in Malaysia, food technology, crop reports, legislative issues, pesticide regulation and safety etc.
    Malaysian Institute of Medical Research: Human Nutrition Division
    A long, detailed and informative home page with material not only on who they are and what they do, but also on the results of many of their studies and projects. For example, vitamin A and iron supplementation. There are also links to material on food composition of local foods.
    Mexico: Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion
    Information about the organisation and the courses it offers. Web pages are in Spanish and English.
    Sweden: Center for Nutrition and Toxicology
    Within the Karolinska Institutet of the Department of Biosciences this organisation has joint affiliations, being partly university teaching and part government research institution. It "performs research on nutrition and toxicology using molecular biology techniques, and provides education on preventive nutrition, nutritional toxicology and molecular biology, thereby constituting an interface between scientists and the rest of society."

    The site has organisational information, a few links, information on meetings and a list of staffs' published papers, web pages for its many individual units, of which the two directly nutritional ones are the Unit for Molecular Nutrition and the Unit for Preventive Nutrition.

    Switzerland: Swiss Nutrition Foundation: Schweizerischen Vereinigung für Ernährung
    News, nutrition analysis (has cost), information on their organisation and their publications, Q&A, book reviews, conference and meeting calendar.
    UK: Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Centre
    Organisational history and details about this prestigious English Nutrition research unit. Also access to abstracts of their staff's published research papers.
    Swedish National Food Administration
    Most of the web site is in Swedish, although there is one English page. Press releases, organisational information, links, course catalogue, gene technology section etc.
    Taiwan: Department of Health: food sanitation and dietetics in Taiwan
    Part of a general manual on how the department works with health in Taiwan.The chapter has material on deitetics, education and food regulation.
    Thailand: Research Institute for Health Sciences
    There is a nutritoin and dietary services division, but no information about it on this web page.
    Thailand: Institute of Nutrition
    Brief information and a picture of the building is all that is available here at present.

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    INTERNATIONAL

    OECD: Organisation for Economic Development
    Information about the organisation and access to resources such as economic and country reports.
    WHO
    Epidemiological and world health reports, as well as organisational information.
    WHO - Division of Food and Nutrition
    Home to the Food Safety and Nutrition Programs, both of which have their own sites.
    FAO
    For details of this major site, see its listing under Agricultural organisations. There is a home page for the Food and Nutrition Division, but this is only an organisational page. The real value of the FAO site in nutrition comes from the nutrition resources section.

    World Agricultural Information Center (FAO)
    An FAO project to make information on its agricutural and nutrition projects more widely available. There is also another nutrition web page which has material on the CODEX, various papers and conference reports.
    United Nations
    Some statistical tables, news releases, search engine within its own on-line documents as well as organisational information.
    UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition
    About the committee and its work, particularly in relation to the world perspective on nutrition status, poverty, refugee nutrition etc. The site has links, a newsletter SCN News, information about The Nutrition Commission and information on its latest publications, which include:

    World Food Programme (UN)
    "WFP is the frontline United Nations organization fighting to eradicate world hunger...the world's largest international food aid organization". The web site has lots of statistics, news about current famine and other food crises, other organisations working in the food security area etc. It also has a Catalogue of Institutions with Expertise in Food Assistance. There is a lot of information here and this site is well worth spending time on.

    The United Nations University: Tokyo
    Frame based home page to learn about the Tokyo branch of the university, its main projects and programs, fellowships, publications etc. There are specific pages devoted to the Food and Nutrition Program, and its nutrition and food composition related journals.
    United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme: Boston
    Information (including an on-line brochure) about the program and access to other home pages and publications about its main projects, such as: There is another web site for this program, which has Has links to pages and reports on projects such:
    • Improving the Availability of Food Composition and Dietary Intake Data in Developing Countries
    • Overcoming Critical Micronutrient Deficiencies
    • Identifying, Evaluating and Preventing the Continuing Global Problem of Energy and Protein Malnutrition
    • The Design, Evaluation, and Improvement of Nutrition and Health Programmes,
    • Improving Traditional Food Fermentation and Food Technology.

    There is also a link to their Tokyo branch

    UNICEF
    Apart from information on the organisation itself (including email addresses for its staff), UNICEF's web site has news and material on the health status of the world's children which has a strong natural focus on nutrition issues, particularly vitamin deficiencies, malnutrition, food fortification and supplementation projects.

    The site has a number of on-line versions or summaries of UNICEF publications (in various formats, such as html, pdf Acrobat and plain text gopher versions):

    There is also a search engine.

    World Bank
    There is also a World Bank gopher site.
    WHO (Europe).
    Home page.

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    This is a collection of links on nutrition in government, nutrition at hospital, other nutrition organisations both international and within individual countries such as the US, Australia, Asia and Europe. It includes lists of home pages for these nutrition organisations and the home pages linked themselves. This is a collection of links on nutrition in government, nutrition at hospital, other nutrition organisations both international and within individual countries such as the US, Australia, Asia and Europe. It includes lists of home pages for these nutrition organisations and the home pages linked themselves. This is a collection of links on nutrition in government, nutrition at hospital, other nutrition organisations both international and within individual countries such as the US, Australia, Asia and Europe. It includes lists of home pages for these nutrition organisations and the home pages linked themselves.