Improving dietary intake and achieving food product improvement (2020)

A workshop of “first mover” countries to exchange experience and identify wider policy implications for the WHO European Region

The World Health Organization (WHO) European Region continues to be severely affected by diet-related noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), obesity and, in some countries, micronutrient deficiencies.

In order to drive further progress on improving dietary intake and food product improvement, the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Public Health England and the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) co-convened a workshop of “first mover” countries in March 2019.

The workshop brought together a number of countries that have been early implementers of policy action in this field or have been most ambitious in their approach, in order to share experiences, build on successes and find ways through challenges.