National nutrition council
The National Nutrition Council is an expert body under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. The members of the Council serve three-year terms. The members are representatives of authorities handling nutrition issues, consumer, health promotion and catering organisations, food industry, trade and agricultural organisations.
The aims of the National Nutrition Council in 2005-2008 are:
- To observe and improve the nutritional situation in Finland by making Nutrition Recommendations, giving Action Programmes and observing how Action Programmes are fulfilled and what the effects on the nutritional situation are
- To promote the comprehensive nutritional riskmonitoring
- To submit proposals, reports and issue statements concerning the nutritional and health situation in Finland and taking into account the food chain as a whole, from farm to fork
- To observe the development of nutrition policy in Europe and to promote the Councils information services