§5301 — Title 7 Agriculture | U.S. Code

Summary

Create and run a coordinated national program to improve how the United States watches and studies nutrition and food quality. The program has seven goals: use federal and state money more wisely for nutrition monitoring; set up and quickly carry out a national nutrition monitoring and research effort that gives scientific information to protect and improve Americans’ nutrition and the quality of food; keep a continuous plan to track diets, nutrition trends, research needs, and policy effects; raise the quality of national nutrition and health data and build common measures, methods, and tools; make a central federal hub to coordinate federal activities; make ways to meet the information needs of governments, businesses, scientists, health workers, and the public; and support the research and development needed for all of this.

Title 7, §5301

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The purposes of this chapter are to—

(1)make more effective use of Federal and State expenditures for nutrition monitoring, and enhance the performance and benefits of current Federal nutrition monitoring and related research activities;

(2)establish and facilitate the timely implementation of a coordinated National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program, and thereby provide a scientific basis for the maintenance and improvement of the nutritional status of the people of the United States and the nutritional quality (including, but not limited to, nutritive and nonnutritive content) of food consumed in the United States;

(3)establish and implement a comprehensive plan for the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program to assess, on a continuing basis, the dietary and nutritional status of the people of the United States and the trends with respect to such status, the state of the art with respect to nutrition monitoring and related research, future monitoring and related research priorities, and the relevant policy implications;

(4)establish and improve the quality of national nutritional and health status data and related data bases and networks, and stimulate research necessary to develop uniform indicators, standards, methodologies, technologies, and procedures for nutrition monitoring;

(5)establish a central Federal focus for the coordination, management, and direction of Federal nutrition monitoring activities;

(6)establish mechanisms for addressing the nutrition monitoring needs of Federal, State, and local governments, the private sector, scientific and engineering communities, health care professionals, and the public in support of the foregoing purposes; and

(7)provide for the conduct of such scientific research and development as may be necessary or appropriate in support of such purposes.

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Pub. L. 101–445, § 1, Oct. 22, 1990, 104 Stat. 1034, provided that: “This Act [enacting this chapter] may be cited as the ‘National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990’.”

§5301 Congressional statement of purposes

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