High-Energy, Nutrient-Dense Emergency Relief Food Product (2002) / Chapter Skim
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The specifications requested for an EFP encompassed the following: nutritional composition, including water and macro- and micronutrient content, food properties related to stability, consistency, and sensory properties and acceptability, product configuration, size, color, shape, and primary and secondary packaging for long-term propositioning under severe environmental conditions and for land or air delivery, feasibility of manufacture, quality assurance and control parameters, and estimated cost.
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This food relief is often the only source of food available to affected individuals during the initial period after such natural disasters as hurricanes or earthquakes, or during emergencies such as evacuations or fleeing from combat zones. The energy value, nutritional composition, and sensory appeal of emergency food rations are of utmost importance in meeting the nutritional needs of recipients.
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THE NEED FOR AND USES OF A HIGH-ENERGY, NUTRIENT-DENSE EMERGENCY RELIEF FOOD PRODUCT Emergencies Requiring Relief Operations Disasters requiring food relief operations include natural disasters, manmade disasters, and complex humanitarian emergencies. Natural disasters are those caused by fire, flood, drought, earthquake, and disease outbreak, whereas man-made disasters are caused by human error, as in industrial accidents.
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It is also provided when complex humanitarian emergencies induce massive population displacements through or into areas where public services are nonexistent or insufficient (Keely et al., 2001~. Many situations requiring emergency relief arise in the least developed, poorest areas of the world, where human populations are frequently afflicted with chronic malnutrition and various debilitating diseases such as dysentery and malaria (de Onis, 2000, Snow et al., 1999~.
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Population composition in terms of age, sex, health, nutritional status, activity level, and climate are important considerations to ensure that food relief properly addresses the nutritional needs of intended recipients. However, clear international guidelines currently available for estimating food rations for refugees refer mostly to foods provided through the stable supply pipeline that relief agencies establish after the initial stages of an emergency.
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suppliers and shipped from the United States to the emergency sites. If there is an ongoing food relief program sponsored by USAID in a country neighboring the emergency, available food may be rapidly transferred to the emergency area.
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as well as all other food productsincluding such foods as the EFP under study are procured solely by USDA's Commodity Credit Corporation through public solicitation of bids from food producers, distributors, or manufacturers. The importance of having specifications for a high-energy, nutrient-dense EFP for manufacture in the United States lies in the severe regulatory restrictions that USAID faces for purchasing non-U.S.
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Accessed June 12, 2001. USCR (United States Committee for Refugees)
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