Food and nutrition
Canada's food guide, food safety, food and safety standards, nutrition and healthy eating, food labels, food allergies and gluten-related disorders, supplemented food, food and nutrition science, research and surveillance, food legislation, guidelines and policies
Services and information
Canada's food guide
Food guide snapshot, healthy eating recommendations, recipes, tips and resources, Canada's dietary guidelines
Food safety
Reduce food poisoning risk, infant formula and unpasteurized or raw milk, food recalls and alerts, infectious diseases and food safety
Food and safety standards
Pre-market oversight, food additives, novel foods including foods made from genetically modified organisms (GMOs), cellular agriculture, chemical contaminants, irradiation, packaging, microbiological criteria, food safety for industry
Nutrition and healthy eating
Nutrients found in your food, fortified foods (nutrients added to foods to help meet nutrient needs), dietary reference intakes, healthy weights using body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC)
Food labels
Nutrition facts table, ingredients, front-of-package nutrition labelling, nutrition claims, date labels, country of origin, Canadian food, labelling of genetically modified (GM) foods, food labelling tool for industry, report a food labelling concern
Food allergies and gluten-related disorders
Common food allergies, gluten-related disorders like celiac disease, how to avoid a reaction
Supplemented foods
Prepackaged foods with 1 or more specific ingredients added for purposes other than nutrition
Food and nutrition surveillance and research
Food and nutrition surveillance, health and nutrition surveys, nutrient data for common foods, research programs, analytical methods
Food and nutrition legislation, guidelines and policies
Regulatory initiatives, codes of practice, guidelines and policies
Food and Nutrition Directorate
What we do, public involvement, international activities, reports and publications
Features
Food safety course for school-aged children
These classroom-ready food safety resource kits support teaching safe food practices to children aged 9 to 13 (grades 4-6).
Food guide toolkit for educators
Ready-to-use activities for you to helps kids explore and develop food skills.
