Dear Mrs Ruth, You will be greatly missed. You created an indelible mark and handle the food composition like life. Your zealousness is contagious, and I thank you for all you have done. Enjoy your retirement. You are welcome on board, Bridget. On Thu, Apr 22, 2021, 7:15 AM Alaa Aburub <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Ms. Ruth, > > We will miss you, wishing you a good time. > > Best Regards, > > Eng. Alaa Abu Rub > > Health Minister Advisor > for Governance > Ministry of Health > State of Palestine > > Mobile: 00970 562402224 > > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > www.moh.ps > Skype: aiaburub > Facebook: alaa abu rub > Linkedin: alaa abu rub > > > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 9:04 PM > *From:* "Charrondiere, Ruth (FAORLC)" <[log in to unmask]> > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* retirement > > Dear all, > > I would like to say good bay. I will retire in May 2021 and my last > working day will be on 30 April. I will return to our house near Lyon in > France and take my time to enjoy life. > > > > It has been a great honor for me to serve as global INFOODS coordinator > for the last 10 years and a pleasure each time I met someone from the > ¨INFOODS family¨. It was not easy to follow Barbara Burlingame as global > INFOODS coordinator as she had done so much for the food composition > community before me. > > > > I would like to thank each of you for your contribution to food > composition and INFOODS. I know that many of you have done a great job in > advocating food composition, or teaching it in courses or universities, > analyzing foods, publishing food composition data in journals or FCT/FCDB, > contributing to the development of guidelines or new tools, or simply used > these data. And these efforts have paid off. Since its creation in 1984, > INFOODS has done a great contribution to the advancement of food > composition data in terms of knowledge, standards, quality and > availability. And thus contributed to better nutrition. I would also like > to express my happiness for all the friendships which were created in these > past years, they mean a lot to me. > > > > I also would like to sincerely thank FAO for hosting the global INFOODS > coordinator and the INFOODS website. Without FAO funds and support, I do > not know where INFOODS would be today….certainly, many of the newer > guidelines and FCT/FCDB would not exist. It is true, one can always do more > and better. However, there is a time when to appreciate what was done, and > it was a lot. > > > > I am also pleased to announce that FAO intends to continue its support to > INFOODS and a new ad interim global INFOODS coordinator has been appointed: > Bridget Homes here in copy. She is leading the dietary assessment group and > knows about the importance of good and sufficient food composition data. > > > > I wish you a great continuation in your work and a lot of success in > bringing food composition forward > > > > Best wishes > > Ruth > > > > P.S. The INFOODS website will soon be updated and will then also include > the videos of the recent FAO/INFOODS webinars > > > > U. Ruth Charrondiere, PhD > > Nutrition Officer > > INFOODS coordinator > > Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean > > FAO of the UN > > Dag Hammarskjold 3241 > > Vitacura, Santiago, Chile > > Tel. +56-2-29232105 > > [log in to unmask] > > > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1 > > ------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the InFoods-Food-Comp-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/scripts/wa-fao.exe?SUBED1=InFoods-Food-Comp-L&A=1