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Policy recommendations to address dairy intake

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Examples of policy recommendations to address dairy intake

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JRC 2025

  • “The tenderer shall ensure the following amounts of milk and dairy products:
    • Half day catering: A portion of milk or other dairy products (ideally plain yogurt) shall be offered daily at breakfast, as a snack, or as a dessert. 
    • 24h catering: milk or other dairy products (ideally plain yogurt) are offered twice a day.”
  • Flavoured yogurts, including fruit-flavoured yogurts, dairy desserts, and flavoured milk should be replaced with plain yogurt (fresh fruit may be added for natural sweetness or some nuts), plain milk.   

WHO 2021 (pdf)

  • Within the context of examples of criteria that can be used for creating the framework of a sustainable and healthy public food procurement, the following is identified:
  • “Set limits on the number of servings of eggs, dairy, poultry, fish and red meat per day or week” 

FAO 2013 (pdf)

  • “If dairy-industry development is to be linked more explicitly with human nutrition, the private sector has the potential to make a social contribution by: 
    • Using its market reach and infrastructure to put milk and dairy products that boost nutrition within reach of low-income populations.”

 

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FAO 2013 (pdf)

  • “There are also market opportunities, notably in:
    • meeting demand for milk and dairy products in developing and transitional countries; 
      supplying fortified milk into new markets in growing economies; and 
      providing milk-based products that offer an alternative to soft drinks”

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