EFAD's General Meeting takes place in October

For the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, delegates of our member National Dietetic Associations, Higher Education Institutes Committees and Specialist Networks will be meeting in person to shape their commitment and action to improve nutritional health and sustainable diets in Europe.

This year’s annual meeting is extensive with workshops for our member delegates. Next year, in October, we will organize our EFAD Congress again for all Dietitians.  

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ENDietS is recruiting for Nutrition & Dietetic Students

ENDietS is looking for enthusiastic Nutrition & Dietetic Students to apply to be part of the ENDietS Team. 

• Junior Promotion and Recruitment Anchors
• Junior National Key Contact Anchors
• National Key Contacts (National Representatives)

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The Range of European Nutritional Practice - Inspiring and on point

This publication looks at a range of articles relevant to diet and disease.

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A step towards stronger food safety systems and global cooperation - WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety 2022-2030 launches

The updated WHO Global Strategy for Food Safety is a step towards a safer and healthier world, but also towards strengthening multisectoral collaboration and innovative public health approaches.

The Global Food Safety Strategy has been developed to guide and support Member States in their efforts to prioritize, plan, implement, monitor and regularly evaluate actions towards the reduction of the burden of foodborne diseases (FBD) by continuously strengthening food safety systems and promoting global cooperation.

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Major cancer prevention initiative begins

The PrEvCan campaign is based on the European Code Against Cancer (ECAC), which sets out 12 recommendations ranging from physical activity and dietary guidelines to tobacco use and second-hand smoke. Starting from this month, for the next year, each month will be dedicated to promoting one of the recommendations and highlighting the scientific evidence supporting it. The campaign will raise awareness of how to prevent cancer among the general public and provide healthcare professionals with a more comprehensive toolkit for communicating the importance of cancer prevention effectively.

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EU & US commit to strengthened cooperation in health

The Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, and Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Xavier Becerra met in Washington DC on 13 October. They reaffirmed their shared commitment for the EU and the US to work closely in the area of health. The discussions focused on health preparedness and response, cancer, and global cooperation.

 Read the full article here.

UNCAN.eu, a European initiative to understand cancer, gets underway!

UNCAN.eu, a European initiative to understand cancer, kicked off in September, which will create a blueprint for UNCAN.eu. over the next 15 months.

The representatives of 29 institutions and organisations participating in the project have highlighted the importance of this scientific initiative, renewing their commitment and support toward the project.

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WholEUGrain Final Conference
25 October 2022
Ljubljana, Slovenia

The WholEUGrain project, which was launched to transfer the Danish best practice model for a wholegrain partnership to other countries, is having a summary conference in October.

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The European Association of E-Pharmacies
27 October
Brussels

The European Association of E-Pharmacies (EAEP)  is running an in-person event; "The next steps for a real European Health Union - Delivering patient care through digital solutions", which takes place on Thursday 27 October at TownHall Europe (Square de Meeûs 5, Brussels) from 3:00pm to 6:30pm.

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British Nutrition Foundation events

Nutrition and oral health – it’s for lifelong health not just a nice smile
2 November 2022 
Online

This webinar, featuring expert speakers from Queens’ University Belfast and The University of Birmingham, will look at the effect of nutrition on oral health across the life-course. It will particularly focus on the ageing population, as well as the bidirectional relationship between oral health and non-communicable diseases such as type 2 diabetes. You can join live or watch it at a later date.

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Balancing the Scales on Diet Inequality - British Nutrition Foundation Annual Day Conference and Annual Lecture 2022
15 November 2022
Online

This event aims to raise awareness of health inequalities, including a focus on the importance of diet for the health of the UK’s most nutritionally vulnerable young people, and highlighting innovative and effective actions to improve dietary quality at community level. The BNF Annual Lecture will be delivered by Dr Alison Tedstone on tackling health inequalities. Join the BNF for the whole event or just part of it.

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Alpro Foundation Symposium - The Truth about Plant Protein
17 November 2022
Online 

Dietary guidelines across the world recommend increasing the consumption of plant-based foods and lowering the consumption of animal-based foods both for health benefits and environmental sustainability.

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