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§5311a Joint Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Activities

Title 7 › Chapter 84— NATIONAL NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH › Subchapter I— NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH › § 5311a

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to keep running the national nutrition monitoring and related research programs that were in place when the Act passed. They must collect ongoing national data on diet, health, physical activity, and diet knowledge; study special at‑risk groups from time to time; quickly share health, nutrition, environment, and activity information with the public; analyze new data; keep food composition tables current; and improve data collection methods and standards.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §5311a

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The Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall continue to provide jointly for national nutrition monitoring and related research activities carried out as of the date of enactment of this Act—
(1)to collect continuous dietary, health, physical activity, and diet and health knowledge data on a nationally representative sample;
(2)to periodically collect data on special at-risk populations, as identified by the Secretaries;
(3)to distribute information on health, nutrition, the environment, and physical activity to the public in a timely fashion;
(4)to analyze new data that becomes available;
(5)to continuously update food composition tables; and
(6)to research and develop data collection methods and standards.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The date of enactment of this Act, referred to in text, is the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–246, which was approved June 18, 2008. Codification Pub. L. 110–234 and Pub. L. 110–246 enacted identical sections. Pub. L. 110–234 was repealed by section 4(a) of Pub. L. 110–246. Section was enacted as part of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, and not as part of the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 which comprises this chapter.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Enactment of this section and repeal of Pub. L. 110–234 by Pub. L. 110–246 effective May 22, 2008, the date of enactment of Pub. L. 110–234, except as otherwise provided, see section 4 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as a note under section 8701 of this title. Section effective Oct. 1, 2008, see section 4407 of Pub. L. 110–246, set out as an

Effective Date

of 2008 Amendment note under section 1161 of Title 2, The Congress. Definition of “Secretary” “Secretary” as meaning the Secretary of Agriculture, see section 8701 of this title.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 5311a

Title 7Agriculture

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60