9. Healthy and Safe Food for All

Executive Summary

This paper focuses on access to healthy and safe food for all and how current policies, research agendas and strategies may be shaped to create supportive food environments and healthy public policy. Specifically, issues examined in this document include Canada’s social safety net, relationships among physical and mental health outcomes with food insecurity, and safety issues in the Canadian food supply. General recommendations made include strategies aimed at reducing and monitoring poverty, more research examining the links between food insecurity and health, broadening the involvement of decision making related to our food supply to include health and consumer advocacy groups, creating supportive environments to make healthy food choices in public institutions and work environment as well as health and educational programs and strategies aimed at improving food literacy.

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