BDA Food Facts
The Birth and Life of a BDA Fact Sheet
The idea for a topic for a Food Fact Sheet can come from almost anywhere: our members, our Specialist Groups, BDA staff, other healthcare professionals and members of the public.
We 
sift through the ideas to come up with a programme of Food Fact Sheets that we would like to develop.
A project team is then set up to develop each Food Fact Sheet. The team identifies a target audience and finds a dietitian with expertise in the relevant area to write it.
We give the authors a set of guidelines to follow so that they can write the Food Fact Sheets in a consistent style which is easy to follow by our readers.
A first draft is then circulated to a set of peer reviewers: a different group of dietitians who can check the work of the writer to make sure that the information is correct and based on the latest available evidence. This is an important aspect of all dietitians’ work. Food Fact Sheet peer reviewers work to another set of guidelines that helps them to know what to look for.
The author and the project team agree any amendments that need to be made as a result of the peer review and a final draft is sent to the BDA’s Communications Team to check for grammar, spelling and style, and is then designed. The final designed version is then signed off by the project team and the author so that it can be uploaded to the BDA web site.
Just before uploading, we agree a review date (normally three years, unless new evidence comes to light) for when the Food Fact Sheet will checked to make sure that it is still accurate and fit for purpose. When it is time to review the Food Fact Sheet, we send it back to the author (or another expert dietitian) together with any feedback from readers.
The amended version then goes back for peer review and the whole process starts again.