Nutrition and food safety

Guidance and services

• Food hygiene ratings
• Restricting the promotion of high fat, salt and sugar foods: implementation guidance
• Eatwell guide
• Nutrition and health claims guidance
• Food and nutrition guidance for childcare providers
• Food and nutrition guidance for older people in care homes
• Review and reform of food business regulation in Wales
• Healthy Start eLearning course (WHC/2023/038)
• Feeding in the first year of life (WHC/2018/035)
• Reducing hospital food waste (WHC/2017/018)
• Vitamin D intake: revised guidelines (WHC/2016/043)
• Nutrition labelling: front of pack guidance
• Food for particular nutritional uses: notification form
• Nutrition in the community
• Food and fluid record chart
• Food supplements: guidance
• Food supplements: permitted vitamins and minerals
• Food supplements: labelling and reformulating
• Fortified foods: guidance
• Infant formula: guidance
• Infant formula and foods for medical purposes: guidance
• Infant formula: notification form
• Medical foods: notification form
• Authorisations for regulated food and feed products: directions and specifications

Policy and background Includes strategy, reports, projects and assessments.

• The Food (Promotion and Presentation) (Wales) Regulations 2025: impact assessments
  Collection
• Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales obesity strategy
  Collection
• Healthy food environment (consultation): children's rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Nutrition related labelling, composition and standards provisional common framework
  Policy and strategy
• Food and feed law enforcement
  Report
• Food Standards Agency: food safety update
  Report
• Restricting the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children: regulatory impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Restricting the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Restricting the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children: health impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Restricting the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children: equality impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Restricting the sale of high-caffeine energy drinks to children: children's rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• All Wales Nutrition and Catering Principles and Standards for Food and Fluid Provision for Patients in Hospital (2026) (WHC/2026/030)
  Policy and strategy
• Food Hygiene Rating (Wales) Act 2013
  Policy and strategy
• Mapping the Welsh food system: dietary shift
  Report
• The Food Supplements (Magnesium L threonate monohydrate) (Wales) Regulations 2026: integrated impact assessment
  Impact assessment
• Review of the Food Standards Agency function in Wales
  Report
• The Nursery Milk Scheme (Wales) Directions 2026
  Legislation
• All-Wales gluten free subsidy card scheme (WHC/2025/027)
  Policy and strategy