"www.fao.org/about/meetings/sustainable-food-systems-nutrition-symposium The International Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets and Improved Nutrition was jointly held by FAO and WHO in December 2016 to explore policies and programme options for shaping the food systems in ways that deliver foods for a healthy diet, focusing on concrete country experiences and challenges. This Symposium waas the first large-scale contribution under the UN Decade of Action for Nutrition 2016-2025. This presentation was part of Parallel session 2.2: Information and education for healthy food behaviours"

2. INTEGRATING SCHOOL MEALS AND
NUTRITION EDUCATION IN HIGH
INCOME COUNTRY SETTING
Dr. Klaus Heider
Director-General for „Food Policy, Product Safety and Innovation“

3. Key factors of our health promoting
food policy:
• Dietary education schemes which pursue an integral
approach and are fun for children (“nutrition license”)
• Quality standards for school catering
that have been devised on a scientific basis and are
continuously being updated and further developed

4. Key factors of our health promoting
food policy:
• Networking centres and a National Quality Centre for
Nutrition in Preschools and Schools.
They ensure that the quality standards are applied on a
broad basis in day-care centres for children and schools.
• A National Research Institute of Child Nutrition.
It helps us to become better and better and take our policy
decisions on a scientific basis.

5. Dietary education that pursues an
integral approach and is fun and
quality-focused school catering are
two sides of the same coin that we
aim to address with our health-
promoting food policy in Germany
which is based on scientific findings.