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
>
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>
> *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]
>
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