Publications – Food and nutrition

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• Highlights reports
• Healthy eating
• Food labels
• Food safety
• Food risks, surveillance and outbreaks
• Nutrition science and research

Highlights reports

• Food and nutrition highlights reports

Healthy eating

• How to tell different types of foods and health products apart (fact sheet)
• Infographic: Food and beverage advertising to children and teens in Canada
• Canada's food guide
  • Canada's Dietary Guidelines for Health Professionals and Policy Makers
  • Healthy eating recommendations
  • Food guide snapshot
  • History of Canada's Food Guides from 1942 to 2007
• Evidence for dietary guidance
  • Evidence Review for Dietary Guidance: Summary of Results and Implications for Canada's Food Guide 2015
  • Food, Nutrients and Health: Interim Evidence Update 2018
• Sodium Intake of Canadians in 2017
• Sodium Reduction in Processed Foods in Canada: An Evaluation of Progress toward Voluntary Targets from 2012 to 2016
• Infographic: A salty situation
• Consultation Report: Restricting Marketing of Unhealthy Food and Beverages to Children in Canada
• Policy for Labelling and Advertising of Dietary Fibre-Containing Food Products
• List of Dietary Fibres Reviewed and Accepted by Health Canada's Food Directorate
• Healthy Eating Strategy

Food labels

• Infographic: Understanding supplemented food labels [2022-07-20]
• Front-of-package labelling consumer research and consultation [2022-06-30]
• Infographic: Front-of-package nutrition labelling [2022-06-30]
• Front-of-Package Nutrition Labelling: September 18, 2017 Stakeholder Engagement Meeting [2017-11-02]

Food safety

• Pet food safety (Infographic)
• Raw pet food safety (Infographic)
• What we heard: Consultations on the policy on Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat foods
• Poster: Safety is in the numbers
• Food safety for adults ages 60 and over
• Food safety information for children ages 5 and under
• Food safety for pregnant women
• Food safety for people with a weakened immune system
• Healthy and safe food for Canadians framework

Food risks, surveillance and outbreaks

• FoodNet Canada 2019 Integrated Findings Report
  • Infographic: FoodNet Canada 2019 Integrated Findings
• FoodNet Canada: Tables and figures 2019
• National Enteric Surveillance Program (NESP) annual summary 2022
• National Enteric Surveillance Program (NESP) annual summary 2020
• FoodNet Canada Annual Report 2018
  • Infographic: Farm to Fork: FoodNet Canada 2018 Results
• FoodNet Canada Annual Report 2017
  • Infographic: Farm to Fork: FoodNet Canada 2017 Results
• FoodNet Canada Annual Report 2016
  • Infographic: Farm to Fork: FoodNet Canada 2016 Results
• FoodNet Canada Annual Report 2013
• FoodNet Canada 2015 Short Report
• Infographic: Farm to Fork: FoodNet Canada 2015 Results
• Infographic: Food-related illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths in Canada
• Foodbook Report
• Foodbook 2.0 Report

Nutrition science and research

• Summary of Health Canada's Assessment of a Health Claim about Vegetables and Fruit and Heart Disease
• 2019 Canada's Food Guide Food Classification System: Summary of methodologies
• 2019 Canada's Food Guide Food Classification System: Development and validation
• 2019 Canada's Food Guide Food Classification System: Classification of foods and beverages into categories