The Ministry of Agriculture of Norway presented, in December 1975, a government white paper outlining a proposal for a comprehensive national food and nutritional policy. It is comprehensive in that it was developed in a cooperative effort between experts in agriculture and public health and it is promising in that it is the culmination of a long development of policy in the health and agricultural sectors. It is important because it is morethan a proposal; the continuous policy development has madeits overall intent politically acceptable and its implementationis not merely feasible, but likely.