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Healthy, tasty and safe food is important in our society. Everyone in the Netherlands who has questions about this can direct their queries to an independent organisation: the Netherlands Nutrition Centre (Stichting Voedingscentrum Nederland).
The Nutrition Centre is funded by the ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and the ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) to provide scientifically founded, honest information about healthy and safe food and food quality.
Mission
The Netherlands Nutrition Centre wants to increase the understanding of food qualities and to encourage consumers to eat healthily and safely, aimed at consumers who make informed choices and at health gain.
Core values
The Netherlands Nutrition Centre seeks to realise its mission in accordance with its core values:
- independent, honest and reliable
- based on current scientific knowledge
- fixed on consumers' needs
- responsive and functional
Key tasks
This is embodied in the Netherlands Nutrition Centre’s three key tasks:
- To provide scientifically reliable, honest information to consumers about the quality aspects of food and food production and about safe and healthy nutrition;
- To use active communication campaigns and specific projects to achieve changes in behaviour that lead to healthier and safer eating patterns by consumers and/or concrete health gains;
- To interact with scientific, commercial, political and public communities in order to further the missions’ goal.