Food & Nutrition Special Interest Group

Committee Details

Co-Convenor: Andrea Begley [ email ]
Phone: (08) 9266 2773
Fax:       (08) 9266 2958
 
Co-Convenor: Christina Pollard [ email ]
Phone: (08) 9388 4983

General Committee Member: Patricia Carter
General Committee Member: Karen Campbell
General Committee Member: Julie Woods
General Committee Member: Bronwyn Ashton
General Committee Member: Sandra Murray
General Committee Member: Kylie Ball

Aims and Objectives

The objectives of the Food and Nutrition Special Interest Group (FANSIG) are to:

• provide a focal point for discussion of and action on public health food and nutrition issues;
• provide a formal vehicle for networking, advocacy and collaboration in public health nutrition;
• promote development of a framework for education and professional development of public health workers interested in public health nutrition, and;
• ensure that public health nutrition is represented in the affairs of the Public Health Association of Australia Inc.

Events

Member Updates and Minutes of Meetings

Workplan

Meeting Agenda

Meeting Minutes

SIG Forums

The FAN SIG Forum provides an area for FAN SIG members to post information, respond to and discuss various articles of interest and to interact with fellow members.

Link to Forums (you will be required to login to access this area)

Advocacy

Submission Food Regulation Secretariat - Front of Pack Labelling Policy Guideline Consultation Paper	March 2009
Submission into Community Stores in Remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander communities PHAA/DAA Joint Policy Food Security for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples Policy	February 2009
PHAA Submission to NHMRC - Proposed methodology for review of the Core Food Groups	August 2008
PHAA Submission to Food Standards Australia and New Zealand on Proposal P293 - Nutrition, Health and Related Claims (PDF)	February 2008
Submission to Food Regulation Standing Committee on the Draft Policy Guidelines - Addition to Food of Substances other than Vitamins and Minerals (PDF)	December 2007
Submission for Revision of the Core Food Groups 1994 (PDF)	November 2007
Eating Two and Five Adds Up (PDF)	April 2005

Related Links

Issue 6: The Newsletter of the Food Regulation Secretariat

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