NHS Food Safety

It is important to practise food safety to prevent an upset stomach or, more seriously, food poisoning. According to the Food Standards Agency, about one in 60 people suffer from food poisoning in England and Wales every year.

Contact: For general enquiries about the NHS or the Department of Health, please contact:

Customer Service Centre
The Department of Health
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London SW1A 2NL

Telephone: 0207 210 4850

Website: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/food-safety/Pages/Introduction.aspx

Food Standards Agency – Safer Eating

The Food Standards Agency is an independent Government department set up by an Act of Parliament in 2000 to protect the public’s health and consumer interests in relation to food.

Contact: If you wish to make a telephone enquiry you can ring our helpline.
Tel: 020 7276 8829
Email: helpline@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk

Website: http://www.food.gov.uk/safereating/

British Nutrition Foundation

The British Nutrition Foundation (BNF) was established over 40 years ago and exists to deliver authoritative, evidence-based information on food and nutrition in the context of health and lifestyle. Accurate interpretation of nutrition science is at the heart of all we do.

Contact:
British Nutrition Foundation
High Holborn House
52-54 High Holborn
London WC1V 6RQ

Telephone: 020 7404 6504
Fax: 020 7404 6747
Email: postbox@nutrition.org.uk

Website: http://www.nutrition.org.uk/

British Association Of Applied Nutritional Therapists

The British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy (BANT) is the professional body for Nutritional Therapists. Its primary function is to assist its members in attaining the highest standards of integrity, knowledge, competence and professional practice, in order to protect the client’s interests, nutritional therapy and the Nutritional Therapist.

Contact:
British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy
27 Old Gloucester Street
London
WC1N 3XX

Tel: 08706 061284
Email: theadministrator@bant.org.uk

Website: http://www.bant.org.uk/

Human Nutrition Research

MRC Human Nutrition Research exists to develop the evidence underpinning public health nutrition strategies. It provides a national centre of excellence for the measurement and interpretation of biochemical, functional and dietary indicators of nutritional status and health.

Contact:
MRC Human Nutrition Research
Elsie Widdowson Laboratory
Fulbourn Road
Cambridge
CB1 9NL

Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 426356
Fax: + 44 (0) 1223 437515

Website: http://www.mrc-hnr.cam.ac.uk/

The Nutrition Society

The Nutrition Society was established in 1941 ‘to advance the scientific study of nutrition and its application to the maintenance of human and animal health’. Highly regarded by the scientific community, the Society is the largest learned society for nutrition in Europe. Membership is worldwide but most members live in Europe. Membership is open to those with a genuine interest in the science of human or animal nutrition.

Contact:
10 Cambridge Court
210 Shepherds Bush Road
London
W6 7NJ
United Kingdom

Email: webinfo@nutsoc.org.uk

Website: http://www.nutritionsociety.org/

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