WHO Guidelines on Nutrition

NSF International : Its Role in Dietary Supplement and

Nutraceuticals Industries

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WHAT IS WHO?

▪ World Health Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned
with International public health.

▪ It was established on 7th of April 1948 and its headquarter is located in Geneva: Switzerland

▪ It is responsible for providing leadership on global health matters, shaping the research
agenda, setting norms and standards, providing technical support to countries and
monitoring and assessing health trends.

Ref: https://www.who.int/
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Nutrition

 Nutrition is a critical part of health and development.

 It is the process of taking in food and using it for growth, metabolism, repair.

 These nutrition include proteins, carbohydrates, fat, water, vitamins and minerals.

 Better nutrition is related to improved infant, child and maternal health, stronger
immune system, safer pregnancy and child birth, lower risk of communicable
diseases and longevity.

 People with adequate nutrition are always more productive and can create
opportunities to gradually break the cycles of poverty and malnutrition

 WHO is providing scientific advice and decision making tools that can help counties
to take action to eradicate malnutrition

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WHO Guidelines on NUTRITION

➢ Guideline : Iron and folic acid supplementation in menstruating women

➢ Guideline : iron supplementation in prescribed and school age children

➢ Guideline : neonatal vitamin A supplements

➢ Guideline : Vitamin A supplementation during pregnancy for reducing the risk of
mother-to-child transmission of HIV

➢ Guideline : Vitamin A supplementation for infants 1-5 months of age

➢ Guideline : Vitamin A supplementation in postpartum women.

➢ Guideline : calcium supplementation in pregnant women

➢ Guideline : sodium and sugar intake for adults and children

➢ WHO child growth standards and identification of sever acute malnutrition in
infants and children

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NSF INTERNATIONAL:

❑ NSF – National Sanitation Foundation is a global independent public health
organization.

❑ It was founded in 1944 and writes standards and test that certifies products
for the food, water, and consumer goods industries to minimize adverse
health effects and protect the environment.

❑ NSF International helps to protect and improve public health and the
environment by offering services in different areas of food, water, health
sciences, consumer products, sustainability and management systems

❑ Manufactures, regulators and consumers look to NSF International for the
development of public health standards and certification programs that
help protect the world’s food, water, consumer products and environment.

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Why NSF?

 NSF certification is key to meet the strict standards for public health protection

 Choosing product certified by NSF means that the company complies with
the standards and procedures imposed by NSF.

 NSF certification is not a one time event but involves regulatr onsite inspections
manufacturing facilities and regular re-testing of products to ensure that they
continue to meet the same high standards required to maintain certification
over time.

 Products that earn NSF certification are said to be “ NSF certified” and display
NSF certification mark.

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Value of NSF Mark

 Strong industry and consumer reputation

 High level of regulatory and governmental mark acceptance

 Worldwide acceptance of NSF mark in 88 countries

 Leading Standards Developer with over 44 standards currently active.

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NSF : ITS ROLE IN DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS AND
NUTRACEUTICALS

1. DIETARY SUPPLEMENT TRAINING : NSF support the dietary supplement industry
worldwide by providing high quality training ona variety of topics
instrumental to understanding regulations and critical to achieving or
maintaining regulatory compliance

2. Dietary supplements training includes :

➢ PUBLIC TRAINING COURSES

➢ TRAINING AT YOUR SITE

PUBLIC TRAINING COURSES :

▪ Training is essential for maintaining high standards of quality assurance and
compliance to GMP

▪ GMP regulations state – employes involved in manufacturing,packaging,
labeling of dietary supplements must be trained in their respective role in
maintaining compliance to 21 CFR

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CONTD…

 TRAINING AT YOUR SITE :

▪ Onsite training offer a good over view of Good Manufacturing Practices or
specific modular task oriented training for individual department

▪ Process of bringing dietary supplements training to the particular location
involves

✓ NSF team discusses course – aim, audience, location and timing

✓ NSF provide company with a formal proposal of a draft program and outline all
of the costs.

✓ NSF process all the firm’s feedback and finalize the details.

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Dietary Supplement Safety

NSF has worked for over a decade with many organizations, anti-doping
agencies and supplement manufacturers to help ensure supplement
safety through product testing and evaluation

NSF facilitated the development of the only American National Standard
for Dietary Supplements ( NSF/ANSI173) and with BSF certification and
can be sure that dietary supplement do not contain unacceptable levels
of contaminants.

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