The Ministry of Health ( it, Ministero della Salute) is a governmental agency of

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re ...

. Its headquarters are in

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." Ministry of Health. Retrieved on 26 April 2011. and is led by the

Italian Minister of Health The Minister of Health (Italian: ''Ministro della Salute'') in Italy is one of the positions in the Italian government. The ministry was officially established in 1958, with Vincenzo Monaldi, of the Christian Democracy, serving as the first min ...

. The Ministry developed the Italian Food Pyramid (''Piramide Alimentare Italiana'') to guide food and meal planning. The divisions show healthy intake of water, fruits and vegetables, starches (bread, biscotti, pasta, etc.), protein (meat, cold cut meats, eggs, fish, etc.), milk and dairy, and occasional uses (oils, sweets, and alcohol). The pyramid is intended to represent the variety of foods eaten over an entire week, averaged into daily portions. An example of their legislation is the

Italian Device Registration The Italian Ministry of Health (MOH) has implemented mandatory procedures for the Italian registration of medical devices as of 1 May 2007. Overview Placing a Medical Device into the European market is contingent upon compliance with the Medic ...

to meet (and exceed) the

EEC The European Economic Community (EEC) was a regional organization created by the Treaty of Rome of 1957,Today the largely rewritten treaty continues in force as the ''Treaty on the functioning of the European Union'', as renamed by the Lisb ...

Medical Devices Directive The Medical Device Directive (Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices, OJ No L 169/1 of 1993-07-12) is intended to harmonise the laws relating to medical devices within the European Union. The MD Directive is a ' ...

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Health Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity".World Health Organization. (2006)''Constitution of the World Health Organiza ...

Medical and health organisations based in Italy

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