Dear all,
A kind reminder to use reply to all only if you think that your message is relevant to all. If not please send it only to the person you address your message to.
Thanks for your understanding
Best wishes
Ruth

From: Charrondiere, Ruth (FAORLC)
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 3:05 PM
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Cc: Holmes, Bridget (ESN) <[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
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