Department of Nutrition and Food Safety key achievements 2022

WHO leadership, norm setting, policy guidance and monitoring has brought another good year of progress towards universal access to safe and sufficient nutritious food and effective nutrition actions. In 2022, 48% of children under 6 months were exclusively breastfed, a 10 percentage point higher than a decade earlier. As a result of the implementation of the WHO REPLACE package, almost 3 billion people are now protected from industrial trans fatty acids. Where progress is slower, as for wasting, obesity reduction and anaemia, we have set up acceleration initiatives, involving Member States and partners. We have also established new targets on food safety and agreed on a strategy to achieve them. This brochure of our 2022 achievements will explain how we have done this.