Food for thought

Affordable, nutritious foods for those at risk of poverty

Benefit and risk communication

Closer co-operation to strengthen the global competitiveness of the European food sector

There is increasing recognition that innovation is a task for all actors in the food chain, since innovation can be beneficial to the food chain as a whole and lead to sustainable novel applications. Building on this idea, RECAPT aims to support a process that will lead to closer collaborative management of innovations along the food supply chain.

Dietitians ensuring education, teaching and professional quality

DIETS: the Thematic Network (TN) for Dietitians in Europe

Welcome to DIETS: the Thematic Network (TN) for Dietitians in Europe. The Thematic Network, funded through the Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency of the European Commission, was established to facilitate sharing of best practice between dietitians working across Europe.

EU Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health

EUFIC is an active participant of the European Platform for Action committed to helping fight one of the most serious health challenges facing the EU today: Obesity.

EU-funded research project FLABEL announces its final results on nutrition labelling

Listen in to the webinar of the results of the EU-funded project FLABEL, on-line NOW! 

Nutrition labels are a potentially useful tool for enabling consumers to make healthier choices about food. However, scientific insights into how these labels are used in real-life shopping situations are limited. The pan-European project FLABEL (Food Labelling to Advance Better Education for Life) was set up to fully examine the factors which lead from labelling to dietary intake. FLABEL, which involved academic experts from eight European universities, two major retail organisations, and representatives of European consumer and industry associations, has provided state-of-the-art research on consumer behaviour and nutrition labels.

The results from this three-and-a-half-year project will be presented in a webinar by Prof. Klaus Grunert from Aarhus University, Denmark, who is FLABEL’s Scientific Advisor, following a brief introduction by Dr. Laura Fernández Celemín from EUFIC, who is the FLABEL Coordinator. The webinar is available free of charge (login required) on the project website at http://flabel.org/en/News/FLABEL-final-webinar/.

European micronutrient recommendations aligned

EURRECA is a collaborative network developing quality assured, harmonised nutrient recommendations across Europe. The network will focus on identifying and addressing micronutrients of concern to vulnerable population groups and incorporate these findings into country-specific Food Based Dietary Guidelines.

Food Labelling to Advance Better Education for Life

The 3-year EU Seventh Framework-funded project FLABEL (Food Labelling to Advance Better Education for Life), will provide state-of-the-art science on nutrition labels and consumer behaviour as well as best practice guidelines for future research, industry and policy-makers.

HELENA

The HELENA research consortium believes that the key to health promotion and disease prevention in the 21st century is to establish an environment that supports positive health behaviour and healthy lifestyle.

Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Habits

Unhealthy diets are one of the greatest public health challenges of the 21st century. The tip of the iceberg is the dramatically increasing proportion of people suffering from obesity and overweight in Europe. Recognising the importance of diet quality, many campaigns promoting healthy eating and physical activity have been launched in an attempt to reverse the obesity trend, but few have been assessed.

Investigating health issues in children and infants

The environment of infants and children has drastically changed in Europe during the last decades as reflected in alterations of behaviour, unhealthy dietary habits and low physical activity. To stop the resulting epidemic of diet- and lifestyle-induced morbidity, evidence-based efficient approaches are needed.

New dietary strategies for healthy ageing in Europe

The NU-AGE project will explore how diet can help European seniors to live a healthier, longer life by new dietary strategies addressing the specific needs of elderly population in Europe.

Personalised nutrition: Opportunities & challenges

One size fits all dietary advice is often provided to combat public health issues but is not necessarily the most effective technique for improving public health. Food4me is investigating personalised nutrition; the possibility of designing diets tailored specifically to an individual’s characteristics.

SAFE FOODS

SAFE FOODS seeks to refine risk analysis practice for food safety. Lasting four years, it combines the skills of natural and social scientists, stockbreeders, food producers, and regulatory bodies, coming from 35 institutions and 19 countries from Europe and across the globe.

Towards sustainable food research

Over the past decade, most EU Member States have identified food and health as key priorities. This is in response to increases in obesity and diet-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular diseases amongst their populations. Also an insufficient nutrient supply in subgroups of the populations and special demands in ageing societies are identified as abiding challenges.