Canadian Council of Food and Nutrition

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Fast Facts…did you know…

The Home Plate Report was launched March 23, 2011. For details click here.
CCFN launched its first-ever Ethnographic Survey Report October 22, 2010. For details click here.
Tracking Nutrition Trends (TNT) is the longest running food and nutrition tracking survey around with the first one conducted in 1989.
CCFN collaborated with Dr. Anna Farmer from the University of Alberta on research on consumers and sodium. These findings were presented at our web-cast.
CCFN is the only multi-sectoral evidence-based organization in Canada.
CCFN’s CEO is a member of Health Canada’s Working Group on Sodium and is a member of the new Food Regulatory Advisory Committee. She was invited to present to the House of Commons Committee on Health on Childhood Obesity. She was also a member of the Trans Fat Task Force.
CCFN came into existence from a merger of the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) which was in existence for over 25 years and the Canadian Food Information Council (CFIC) which was in existence for over 5 years.