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.
• Review and reform of food business regulation in Wales
  Collaborative agreement between the Food Standards Agency, local authorities and the Welsh Government.

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.
• Healthy Weight: Healthy Wales obesity strategy
  Collection
  What we are doing to support people to make healthier choices and lead more active lives.
• Healthy food environment (consultation): children's rights impact assessment
  Impact assessment
  An assessment of how proposals in the healthy food environment consultation affect children’s rights.