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Guidelines for ready-to-use therapeutic foods

Year of publication 2023

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 20 p.

Author ​FAO; WHO;

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Booklet

Series title Codex Alimentarius Guideline

Series number CXG 95-2022

Synopsis (short abstract) This text provides guidance on technical and nutritional aspects of the production of ready-to-use therapeutic foods (RUTF) including nutritional composition, raw materials and ingredients, good manufacturing practices, microbiological and chemical contaminant criteria, methods of analysis and sampling, and provisions for packaging and labelling. The provisions of these guidelines apply to RUTF for children aged from 6 to 59 months with severe acute malnutrition (SAM) who need efficacious and timely intervention including safe, palatable foods with a high-energy content and adequate amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients within an appropriately designed programme that promotes continuation of breastfeeding, appropriate transition to nutritious family food and psycho-social support for recovery. The term "Codex Alimentarius" is Latin and means "food code”. Codex standards are international food texts, i.e. standards, codes of practice, codes of hygienic practice, guidelines and other recommendations, established to protect the health of the consumers and to ensure fair practices in the food trade. The collection of food standards and related texts adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission is known as the Codex Alimentarius.

Last updated 27/04/2023

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FAO and WHO. 2022. Guidelines for ready-to-use therapeutic foods. Codex Alimentarius Guideline No. CXG 95-2022. Codex Alimentarius Commission. Rome.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cc4593en

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