improve the quality and safety of food, throughout market and storage levels, and to improve food hygiene at all levels Health measures 87. Food is taken to mean any natural or artificial product, whether or not processed, whose consumption provides the human body with the nourishment and energy necessary to perform its biological processes. 88. The Ministry of Health; (a) Lays down the regulations necessary to organize and perform activities in the fields of health and hygiene, and issues sanitary regulations to control raw material and finished products, from the production process to the sale of food; (b) Draws up technical standards to identify, monitor and make up for malnutrition, as well as help to prevent it;E/1986/3/Add.l5 page 17 (c) Regulates all matters connected with the enrichment and fortification of foods; (d) Ensures sanitary supervision of exports and imports of food for human consumption or of raw foodstuffs, as well as over the sale of processed and unprocessed food. Only food additives approved by the Ministry of Health may be used in Nicaragua. Progress in standard-setting 89. Regulations have been drawn up covering the sale of dairy products. 90. The hygiene committee for foods on the food CODEX has been established. Protection of food (a) Monitoring system for the dairy industry (milk and by-products). Third Region; (b) Monitoring system for meat by-products; (c) Initiation of a study into pesticide residues in food; (d) Initiation of periodic sanitary inspections in the food industry. 12. Measures taken to disseminate knowledge of the principles of nutrition 91. One measure adopted by the Ministry of Education to disseminate and introduce principles concerning food and nutrition has been the curriculum reform process, with the following objectives: (a) A review of teaching programmes to integrate a component on nutrition;
**Analysis**
The text discusses the Ministry of Health's regulations and measures to improve food quality, safety, and hygiene, as well as education and research initiatives to promote nutrition and prevent malnutrition. It appears to be focused on the health sector, with some overlap with education and agriculture.

**Category**
Health, Education