As part of the seminar held by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in collaboration with the National Nutrition Committee (affiliated by the Academy for Scientific Research and Technology) , “Research to support the 100 Million Healthy Lives Initiative: Lessons learned and actions for improving nutrition in Egypt”.

1. EOS contribution in
Nutrition in Egypt
Eng. M. AbdelHamid Nasser
Food Standards Specialist
EOS

2. EOS
Egyptian Organization for Standardization & Quality (EOS) is
the only national & competent body in Egypt affiliated for
undertaking all the relevant activities of preparing and
issuing Egyptian standards as well as the different activities
in the field of quality assurance and conformity assessment
for the relevant products, testing and industrial
measurements, aiming at increasing the quality of the
Egyptian products to be competitive in the international
and local markets along with consumer's protection and
environment.

3. Standards Dep.
• The General Department for Standards is concerned with
developing Egyptian Standards through the technical staff in
collaboration with the specialized technical committees, undertake
the technical secretariat of these committees, conduct the relevant
technical studies and follow-up the required laboratory experiments
to develop the draft standards as well.
• These concerned committees comprise specialists from different
stakeholders such as industrial, scientific and supervisory activities
as well as consumers according to various industrial and supervisory
sectors.

4. Food Standards Dep.
• The Food Standards Dep. Is under the General Department of
Standards, includes different food technical committees
responsible for developing Egyptian Food Standards in line with the
international Standards issued by the International Organizations
such as ISO, Codex ….
• The dep. Includes 33 Food Technical Committees
• Issued totally approx. 1601 Egyptian Food Standards
• I’m here as a technical secretariat for the Special Dietary Food
Committee that issues around 73 Egyptian Standards till now.

5. Special Foods Standards
The following Egyptian Standards are developed to help the national
nutrition approach in Egypt as follows:
- ES 5117/2008 “BISCUIT OF SCHOOLS”
- ES 1853/2005 “FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USED LOW ENERGY
DRINKS”
- ES 2108/2005 “LOW CALORIE MACARONI”
- ES 2111/2006 “FOODS LOW CALORIE FOR USE IN WEIGHT
CONTROL DIETS”
- ES 2112/2007 “FORMULA FOODS FOR USE IN VERY LOW ENERGY
DIETS FOR WEIGHT REDUCTION”

6. Special Foods Standards
The following Egyptian Standards are developed to help the national
nutrition approach in Egypt as follows:
- ES 2735/2006 “LOW SODIUM IODIZED FOOD SALT (LIGHT)”
- ES 4406/2008 “FOLLOW - UP FORMULA”
- ES 2072/2013 “INFANT FORMULA”
- ES 2240/2007 “GUIDELINES ON FORMULATED SUPLEMENTARY
FOODS FOR INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN”
- ES 8208/2018 “ADVISORY LISTS OF NUTRIENT COMPOUNDS FOR
USE IN FOODS FOR SPECIAL DIETARY USES INTENDED FOR INFANTS
AND YOUNG CHILDREN”

7. Questions

8. Thank You