Health improvement

Guidance and services

• Food hygiene ratings
  Find out if a restaurant, takeaway or food shop has good food hygiene standards.
• Eatwell guide
  Helping you eat a healthy, balanced diet.
• Feeding in the first year of life (WHC/2018/035)
  Recommendations from the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) on infant feeding for 0 to 12 month year olds.
• Food for particular nutritional uses: notification form
  Manufacturers and importers use this form to notify us when a food is first marketed.
• Preventing malnutrition: drinks and snacks
  Advice on drinks and snacks to help people who struggle to eat or need to gain weight.
• Preventing malnutrition: tips to help you eat and drink
  Advice to help make eating and drinking more comfortable.
• Nutrition labelling: front of pack guidance
  Steps for businesses to follow to create a nutrition label.
• Food and nutrition guidance for childcare providers
  How to provide nutritious meals, snacks and drinks for children up to 12 years old.
• Food and nutrition guidance for older people in care homes
  How to provide quality, nutritious food and support residents to eat and drink well.
• Nutrition in the community
  Guidance on how to recognise and treat malnutrition and advice on healthy eating.
• Food and fluid record chart
  Health and care staff should use this form to record all food and fluid consumed by patients.
• Malnutrition factsheet
  Guidance to help identify when people may be at risk of malnutrition.
• Preventing malnutrition: food advice
  Food and eating advice for people who struggle to eat or need to gain weight.
• Nutrition and health claims guidance
  For businesses to comply with regulations on nutrition and health claims.
• Food supplements: guidance
  A guide to the law for everyone making or handling food supplements.
• Food supplements: permitted vitamins and minerals
  A list of the vitamins and minerals allowed in food supplements.
• Food supplements: labelling and reformulating
  Anyone selling a food supplement. must follow this advice. Consider reformulating any supplement exceeding stated limits.
• Fortified foods: guidance
  Guidance on the law about the composition and labelling of food with added vitamins and minerals.
• Vitamin D intake: revised guidelines (WHC/2016/043)
  Advice for health professionals on the amount of vitamin D people need and how to ensure they get enough.
• Infant formula: guidance
  Guidance on the law about the labelling and promotion of infant formula.
• Infant formula and foods for medical purposes: guidance
  Guidance on the law requiring notification when the products are first marketed in the UK.
• Reducing hospital food waste (WHC/2017/018)
  Guidance for health boards on the need to reduce hospital food waste from unserved meals.
• Infant formula: notification form
  Manufacturers and importers use this form to notify us about new or changed infant formulas.
• Medical foods: notification form
  Manufacturers and importers use this forms to notify us when a medical food is first marketed.
• Procurement guidance: food safety
  Guidance to help everyone involved in procurement buy and supply safe food and drink.

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

• Nutrition related labelling, composition and standards provisional common framework
  Policy and strategy
  This sets out a common UK framework for nutrition labelling, composition and standards post EU exit.
• Food and feed law enforcement
  Report
  A report on food hygiene enforcement since 2009 from the Food Standards Agency.
• Food Standards Agency: food safety update
  Report
  A report by the Food Standards Agency on progress in ensuring food safety since 2009.
• Health Weight: Healthy Wales obesity strategy
  Collection
  What we are doing to support people to make healthier choices and lead more active lives.