The NIN has set up cooperative relationship with such international agencies as UNICEF, WHO, FAO, The Netherlands Government, ADB, WB, ILSI as well as many Non-Governmental Organizations and other research institutions/Universities including WU (Netherlands), INMU (Thailand) and Universities of Japan, University of Los-Banos (the Philippines), IRD, GRET (France).The National Institute of Nutrition has been appointed as the WHO national participating Institution for Food Contamination Monitoring (1995), as the SEAMEO-TROPMED Collaborative Center in Community Nutrition (1994) and as the National Focal Point for Nutrition (1995) and the National Nutrition Strategy (2001).