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Meeting of the FAO/WHO expert group on nutrient requirements: setting calcium, vitamin D and zinc requirements for children aged 0-36 months
Meeting of the FAO/WHO expert group on nutrient requirements: setting calcium, vitamin D and zinc requirements for children aged 0-36 months 20 – 29 January 2021
26 – 29 January 2021 - second sessions
Scope and purpose
In November 2014, WHO organized, jointly with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Second International Conference on Nutrition (ICN2). ICN2 adopted the Rome Declaration on Nutrition (http://www.fao.org/3/a-ml542e.pdf) and the Framework for Action (http://www.fao.org/3/a-mm215e.pdf), which recommends a set of policy options and strategies to promote diversified, safe and healthy diets at all stages of life. Subsequently, the 136th Session of the WHO Executive Board (EB) held in January 2015 and the 68th World Health Assembly held in May 2015 endorsed the Rome Declaration and Fram