Isabelle de Guido-Vincent-Genod – Deputy Head of the Food and Nutrition Office Manon Egnell PNNS Project Officer Directorate-General for Health (testimonial from the dossier “Oqali: a food observatory to support public nutrition policy” – 2021)
“Our office is piloting the National Nutrition and Health Programme (PNNS), one of the aims of which is to improve the food environment in order to facilitate access to healthy food. This is a public health issue and a major lever for reducing social inequalities in health. The global view of the food supply provided by the Oqali makes it an essential steering tool for improving the food supply and monitoring the effectiveness of public health policies. The studies that monitor the nutritional quality of food provide us with information on changes in sugar, salt and fat content, and help set targets for the reformulation of recipes by manufacturers. Monitoring the implementation of the Nutri-Score enables us to measure its roll-out and its impact on changes in nutritional quality. Faced with the proliferation of databases, the observatory needs to work with new players and embark on the road to dematerialisation in order to retain its strategic role at national and European level”.
Testimonial from our thematic dossier
Thematic dossier
Oqali: a food observatory to support public nutrition policy
Described as a nutritional pathology by the World Health Organisation, obesity is a public health issue. Public policies have been tackling this issue through information and prevention strategies since the late 1990s. The need for knowledge and tools to share it has never been greater, and data on food and its transparency is a crucial issue. At the interface between science and public policy, INRAE and Anses have developed a food quality observatory called Oqali. Here’s a look at this tool for informing public policy on nutrition.
