Demetra; 2014; 9(3); 633-643 633 FREE THEMED ARTICLES Special dietary requirements in the school environment: an essay on the interface between Nutrition and Bioethics Abstract This essay aims at rising discussions on the building of strategies on public policies to meet special dietary needs in the school environment, in light of the interdisciplinarity of Nutrition Science and Bioethics, with the intent to reach food and nutritional security and the human right to adequate food. This refection is supposed to motivate the development of lines and inter-institutional research networks, contributing to the production and implementation of nutritional and food security indicators for the management of public policies in the context of special dietary needs. Keywords: Special Dietary Needs. School Feeding. Food and Nutritional Security. Nutrition. Bioethics. Human Right to Adequate Food. Cilene da Silva Gomes Ribeiro 1 Maria Teresa Gomes de Oliveira Ribas 1 Carla Corradi-Perini 2 Flavia Auler 1 1 Curso de Nutrição, Escola de Saúde e Biociências. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Curitiba-PR, Brasil. 2 Programa de Pós-Graduação em Bioética, Escola de Saúde e Biociências, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Curitiba-PR, Brasil. Research Project approved and supported by CNPQ, N. 407892/2013-3. Correspondence Cilene da Silva Gomes Ribeiro Email: cilenex@hotmail.com DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/demetra.2014.10383