Annual Report 2009
In 2009, SACN publicly consulted on two major draft reports – Iron and Health and Energy Requirements. The Committee also completed its review of the evidence on folic acid and colorectal cancer risk, and provided advice to the Chief Medical Officer (
This year also saw the continued work of several Committee working groups established in previous years: the Energy Requirements Working Group, Iron Working Group and Folate/Cancer Working Group, which have been completed or will shortly complete their work. Following several years of work the Subgroup on Maternal and Child Nutrition are nearing completion of their report on the influence of maternal, fetal and child nutrition on the development of chronic disease later in life. The Carbohydrates Working Group has also made significant progress on its work programme.
SACN had a very productive Horizon Scanning meeting in October 2009, at which a number of important issues were discussed, and the present and future work programmes were reviewed.