Scottish Food and Health Council
The Scottish Food and Health Council has been formed in order to provide leadership and expert advice and to integrate cross-cutting elements of food and health policy and the strategies of the Food Standards Agency (FSA).
The Council is comprised of the heads of key policy areas within the Scottish Executive, the FSA and appointed key experts and stakeholders.
The council is chaired by Lewis MacDonald MSP, Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care. The Minister links directly to the Joint Ministerial Group on Health Improvement.
The council will inform the strategic direction of food and health policy and monitor its delivery and the annual action plan.
The council has met five times since its formation in January 2005.
The Scottish Food and Health Council and Scottish Physical Activity and Health Council met together in Edinburgh on 12 June 2006 to discuss issues surrounding obesity prevention.
Papers presented at previous meetings of the Scottish Food and Health Council are available to download. See link below.
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- The role of the Food Standards Agency is to improve food safety and standards in Scotland and protect the health of Scotland's population in relation to food.