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Ensuring Food Safety and Proper Nutrition
Ensuring Food Safety and Proper Nutrition
Pages 49-62
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food safety regulations, potentially undermining tire authority of regulatory agencies to enforce tI~ose sta'~darcis. Concerned about tile growing controversy, Congress requested tight tire Institute of Medicine and tire National Research Council's Division of Earths and Life Studies (DELS)
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~E F';'r'~ CRI] ~AL iSSI1~S IN Hr,4~ al plait to harmonize and integer ate the foocIborne disease surveillance conducted lay public I~ealtI~ agencies witty tire efforts of foot!
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In a report titled Proposed Framework for Evaluating the Safety of Dietary Supplements (20021, lOM's Food anc! Nutrition Board proposer!
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since the late 1970s tl~e public continues to be co'~cer~ecl about tire safety of tire food supply and the potential adverse health effects of DLC exposure especially in groups such as developing fetuses and infants who may be more
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k NSt1~lAi,~G ~~) ~5AfT117 AND Park \' ~r1~71~3N sensitive to the toxic effects of these compounds.
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Tire USDA asIcec! tire IOM to evaluate various tools for assessing clietary risk ant!
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and Healths Canada asleep tire IOM to review mutinous currently used to assess safety of ingredients new to infant formula and identify tools to evaporate the safety of ingredients new to infant formula uniter intended conditions of use in ter m Fats. In tile face of natural disasters or otI~er emergency situations, sucks as the displacement of large numbers of people by political or military conflicts, providing, tile victims with rapid, sI~ort-term food relief at act early stage is often of paramount importance.
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deficiencies as well as amounts tight are upper intake levels or limits to lamp people avoid potential adverse effects from consuming too much of a nutrient. To date seven reports have been published bv IOM: tire tiptoe most recent resorts Drovide DRls for ener~v .
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ycirate Fibet; Fat Fatty Acids Cholesterol Protein and Amino Acicis (2002~. This report describes acceptable intake ranges for each ofthese energy sources, baser!
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To maintai n cardiovascular stealth at a maximal level, aclults and children alike should spenc] at least one flour each day in moclerately i~te~se pl~ysical activity, a total that is double tile daily 'minimum goals set by previous federal recommendations.
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tire continuity pi esented by regular Greetings leas pi oved effective ilk stimulating fresco thinking anal pro~noti'~g fat auk exchanges of views. Witty similar motives and means in Extinct, tile FNB also leas created tire International Food and Nutrition Forum.
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Specifically, tire report provides guidance on tire appropriate degree of stancIardization of programs across tire services, wI~ether specific aids for weight loss (e.g., drugs) should be considered, flow dietary changes would impact successful weight loss, and wI~etI~e~4 resistiveness to weight loss and maintenance aloe genetically co~trolled to tire extent treat individuals witty genetic predispositions for obesity sI~ouic]
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Reducing Tobacco's Harm: A national comprehensive surveillance system is urgently needed to collect information necessary to understand the population impact of tobacco products and potential reduced-exposure products, including attitucles, beliefs, product characteristics, product distribution and usage patterns, marketing~messages such as harm reduction claims and advertising, the incidence of initiation and quitting, anti non-tobacco risk factors for tobaccorelatecl conditions. Federal regu~ati~on of all modified tobacco products with risk reduction or exposure reduction claims, exp~icit~or implicit, and any other products offered to the public to promote reduction In or cessations of tobacco use should; be strengthened (Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction, 2001 )
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