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1 Introduction
Pages 9-12

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... has conducted six national food consumption surveys since 1936-1937. The first four were concerned primarily with measuring household food consumption or, more explicitly, with the disappearance of foods from household supplies during a 7-day period.
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... Committee members chosen to conduct the study included persons knowledgeable in food consumption, surveys, economics, epidemiology, statistical analysis, marketing research, survey data use, and analysis of the composition of foods. INCREASE IN SCOPE OF WORK DHHS, acting through the National Center for Health Statistics, has conducted two National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES)
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... Appendix A suggests a process whereby the survey agencies can continue to evaluate future user needs, and Appendixes B and C provide agendas and participant lists for the project's workshop and symposium. Although this report includes some discussion of food and nutrition monitoring as related to the NFCS and the dietary component of the NHANES, its primary focus is not the far broader issue of food and nutrition monitoring, itself.


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