Appendix B

Public Workshop Agenda and Comments

January 10, 2017
National Academy of Sciences Building—Lecture Room
2101 Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20418

At the workshop, the committee asked for a public response to two questions:

• What are the two major challenges you face in implementing the DGA?
• What are the two biggest opportunities you see for the DGA to promote chronic disease prevention and ensure nutritional sufficiency?

Responses from the public were made in person during the workshop and received online from the following individuals and groups:

Angela Amico, Center for Science in the Public Interest, on behalf of Lorrene Ritchie, University of California Nutrition Policy Institute

Tejas Bhatt, Institute of Food Technologists

Darlena Birch, National Women, Infants, and Children Association

Cara Brumfield, 1,000 Days

Robert Burns, Grocery Manufacturers Association

Jeannette Crenshaw, United States Breastfeeding Committee

Emma Gregory, American Frozen Food Institute

Colette Heimowitz, Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

Guy Johnson, McCormick Science Institute

Casey Keller, Global Wrigley

Mark Kennedy, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Clara Lau, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association

Susan Levin, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Sean Lucan, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Richard Lucas, Food and Nutrition Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Jim O’Hara, Center for Science in the Public Interest

Sarah Ohlhorst, American Society for Nutrition

Mary Pat Raimondi, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

Tia Rains, Egg Nutrition Center

Pauline Sakamoto, Human Milk Banking Association of North America

Lee Sanders, American Bakers Association

Kristen Strader, Public Citizen

Paula Trumbo, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Joan Younger, American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Breastfeeding

Tracey Ziener, Wrigley