Dietitians Australia has submitted feedback to Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) on the topic of infant formula standards (June 2022).

Sent June 2022 - Following the Federal Election and change in government, Dietitians Australia wrote to the new Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler MP, to congratulate him on his appointment.

Australia’s new Minister for Health and Aged Care, Hon. Mark Butler MP must tackle food affordability and the nation’s alarming rise in diet-related illnesses through reviving the Labor government’s 1992 National Nutrition Policy.

Dietitians Australia has scored the major parties on their election priorities, with both the LNP and Labor not demonstrating a commitment to affordable food and nutrition for Australia’s most vulnerable.

Access to affordable nutritional support for people with mental illness and disability via Medicare, as well as mandatory reporting measures to protect older Australians in aged care, are not priorities for Australia’s major parties.

We asked the Liberal National Party, the Australian Labor Party and the Greens to complete an election scorecard, rating their commitments to our five federal election requests.

Dietitians Australia is warning the federal government to expect the nation’s diet-related health crisis to get worse as the nation struggles to afford fresh nutritious food.

Dietitians Australia is demanding more accountability from the aged care sector following the release of last week’s Residential Aged Care Quality Indicators – October to December 2021.

A recent report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has confirmed that unhealthy eating is the new smoking with ‘overweight and obesity’ the number one risk factor contributing the highest cost to Australia’s health system, at $4.3billion versus $3.3billion for smoking.

Food and catering, constipation and continence management, falls prevention, change of clinical status & deterioration among top 10 complaints in aged care sector. Dietitians Australia calls for federal government to support mandatory malnutrition screening and mandatory meal quality assessments.