International Conference on Nutrition

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NUTRITION:
DEVELOPMENT OF WORLD HEALTH AND NUTRITION

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON HUNGER

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

53-661

HEARING HELD IN WASHINGTON, DC, MARCH 11, 1992

Serial No. 102-21

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SELECT COMMITTEE ON HUNGER

TONY P. HALL, Ohio, Chairman

LEON E. PANETTA, California
VIC FAZIO, California

PETER H. KOSTMAYER, Pennsylvania
BYRON L. DORGAN, North Dakota

BOB CARR, Michigan

TIMOTHY J. PENNY, Minnesota
GARY L. ACKERMAN, New York
MIKE ESPY, Mississippi

FLOYD H. FLAKE, New York

ELIZABETH J. PATTERSON, South Carolina
ALBERT G. BUSTAMANTE, Texas
MICHAEL R. MCNULTY, New York

ENI F.H. FALEOMAVAEGA, American
Samoa

ELIOT L. ENGEL, New York

LES AUCOIN, Oregon

ALAN WHEAT, Missouri

JILL L. LONG, Indiana

MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma

BILL EMERSON, Missouri
Vice Chairman

MARGE ROUKEMA, New Jersey
SID MORRISON, Washington

BENJAMIN A. GILMAN, New York
ROBERT F. (Bob) SMITH, Oregon
DOUG BEREUTER, Nebraska
FREDERICK S. UPTON, Michigan
DUNCAN HUNTER, California
FRANK R. WOLF, Virginia

CHRISTOPHER H. SMITH, New Jersey
WAYNE T. GILCHREST, Maryland

J. DENNIS HASTERT, Illinois

MARTIN S. RENDON, Staff Director BARBARA EARMAN, Minority Staff Director

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CONTENTS

Hearing held in Washington, DC, March 11, 1992.

Statement of:

Bertini, Hon. Catherine, Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer

Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture...

Page

Bissell, Hon. Richard, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Research and

Development, U.S. Agency for International Development..

Hall, Hon. Tony P., a Representative in Congress from the State of Ohio...

Lupien, Director, Food Policy and Nutrition Division, Food and Agricul-

ture Organization of the U.N...

McGinnis, J. Michael, MD., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Disease

Prevention and Health Promotion, Department of Health and Human

Services.......

Ramalingaswami, Dr. V., Secretary General, International Conference on

Nutrition, World Health Organization.....

Prepared statements, letters, supplemental material, et cetera:

Appendices: Nutrition, Supplemental material...

I-1 Average Micronutrient Intake for Various Age-Sex Groups...........

II-1 Description of Federal Food Assistance Programs.....

II-2 Age and Sex Specific Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs)..

II-3 Per-capita Food Availability...

III-1 Federal Research Activities.

IV-1 Additional Food and Nutrition Objectives from Healthy People

2000....

101

IV-2 Nutrition Monitoring Objectives from: Nutrition Monitoring in

the United States: An Update Report on Nutrition Monitoring.

IV-3 Recommendations from: Improving America's Diet and Health:

From Recommendations to Action..

IV-4 National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act and

the 10-Year Plan for Nutrition Monitoring in The United States.......

Bertini, Catherine A., Assistant Secretary, Food and Consumer Services,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Prepared statement...
Bissell, Richard E., Assistant Administrator for Research and Develop-
ment, Agency for International Development, Prepared statement.......

Committee on Agriculture, 11th Session, Rome, Italy, April 22-30, 1991,

Supplemental material..

154

160

174

Dorgan, Hon. Byron L., a Representative in Congress from the State of

North Dakota, Prepared statement

199

Emerson, Hon. Bill, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Missouri, Prepared statement..

200

Final Act of the United Nations Conference on Food and Agriculture, Hot