Food & Nutrition Special Interest Group

Committee Details

Co-Convenor: Ms Simone Lowson [ email ] Phone: (07) 3000 9148 Fax: (07) 3000 9121

General Committee Member: Ms Julie Woods
General Committee Member: Ms Particia Carter
General Committee Member: Ms Bronwyn Ashton
General Committee Member: Ms Christina Stubbs

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.

Meeting Dates 2008 and Minutes of Meetings

Workplan

Overweight and Obesity Prevention Framework - A Health Promotion approach

Click here to view the Updated version of the - Overweight and Obesity Prevention Framework? A Health Promotion approach document

Meeting Agenda

Meeting Minutes

Executive Committee - Meeting Dates 2007

1. Tuesday 20th February, 4pm (eastern summer time)
2. Tuesday 3rd April, 4pm (eastern standard time)
3. Tuesday 15th May, 4pm (eastern standard time)
4. Tuesday 26th June, 4pm (eastern standard time)
5. Thursday 9th August, 4pm (eastern standard time)
6. Thursday 20th September, 4pm (eastern standard time)
7. Thursday 1st November, 4pm (eastern summer time)
8. Thursday 13th December, 4pm (eastern summer time)

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

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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