Role
The Foods for Early Childhood Reference Group is developing a guide for the food industry to help improve commercial foods for infants and young children.
This is part of the Healthy Food Partnership. The partnership brings together governments, the public health sector and the food industry to:
- improve the diet of Australians
- reduce diet-related diseases, overweight and obesity.
The group will work with the food industry to develop a best practice guide. The guide will support companies to align foods for infants and young children to the evidence and guidelines on early childhood feeding. Guidance areas may include:
- flavour profile
- labelling
- packaging
- serving size.
Members
| Name | Organisation |
|---|---|
| Karen Krist (Chair) | Department of Health and Aged Care |
| Grant Robinson | Department of Health and Aged Care |
| Natalie Chong | Woolworths |
| Dr Daisy Coyle | The George Institute |
| Dr Catharine Fleming | Western Sydney University |
| Matthew Foale | Symington’s |
| Peter Fryer | Nestlé Nutrition |
| Anne-Marie Mackintosh | Australian Food and Grocery Council |
| Jennifer McCann | Deakin University |
| Dr Merryn Netting | South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute |
| Shae Rickards | All G Foods |
| Andrea Schmidtke | Food for Health Alliance |
| Jacqui Turner | PZ Cussons |
| Christine Weaver | Kraft Heinz |
| Dr Miaobing (Jazzmin) Zheng | Deakin University |
Related groups
Other working groups involved in the Healthy Food partnership include the:
- Industry Best Practice Guide Working Group
- Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation Reference Group
- State and Territory Liaison Group
- Reformulation Working Group (now ceased)
- Portion Size Working Group (now ceased).
Healthy Food Partnership and Reformulation Program contact
Contact us for more information about the Healthy Food Partnership or Reformulation Program. To keep up to date with the work of the Healthy Food Partnership you can sign up to the Community of Interest mailing list by emailing us.
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