Towards a National Nutrition Policy, Nutrition and Government, Prepared by the Staff of ..., 1975

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Page 28 - Administrator shall coordinate, with the Assistant Secretary for Health of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare...
Page 15 - Council with aid and encouragement of the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association, the Millers National Federation and the American Bakers
Page 39 - United Nations agencies such as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the United Nations Bureau of Social Affairs.
Page 14 - He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and...
Page 15 - I was general counsel and a member of the executive committee and Board of Directors of Impression 5 Science Museum, Lansing, Michigan. The purpose of the Museum is to provide "hands-on" education in science for children.
Page 23 - ... 4. Maintain a system of quality and safety control that justifies public confidence in its food supply. 5. Support research and education in foods and nutrition with adequate resources and reasoned priorities to solve important current problems and to permit exploratory basic research.
Page 17 - Professor of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. giver has meant, more often than not, blind trust. In contrast, professional care providers appear to have substantially less trust in their patients' ability to take sensible and effective action in their own health interest.
Page 34 - ... to maintain food resources sufficient to meet emergency needs and to fulfill a responsible role as a nation in meeting world food needs, 3...
Page 28 - ... Lake Refuge in South Dakota over a large area, to the extent that farmers no longer feel it necessary to take extraordinary precautions to ward off these scavenging birds. We have tested the material this past summer in Ohio. We will continue testing this year in order to answer the questions asked us by the Food and Drug Administration and the Department of Agriculture with respect to the secondary effects and the persistence of this material EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TO TEST CHEMICALS This is a very...
Page 12 - The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in consultation and cooperation with other officials of the Federal Government and of the States, shall make a comprehensive survey of the incidence and location of serious hunger and malnutrition and health problems incident thereto in the United States and shall report his findings and recommendations for dealing with these conditions to the Congress within six months from the date of enactment of this section.

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