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Peer
Review
As required under the Office of
Management and Budget's "Final
Information Quality Bulletin for Peer
Review," published in the Federal
Register on January 14, 2005, the Food
and Nutrition Service reviews its study
and evaluation plans to determine
whether any projects currently planned
or underway meet the Bulletin's
standards for "highly influential
scientific assessments" or
"influential scientific
information".
The agency has concluded from its
most recent review that is not currently
preparing or sponsoring any "highly
influential scientific
assessments." Four current projects
are expected to yield "influential
scientific information". Peer
review plans for these projects are
linked below:
Title:
Birth Month Breastfeeding Changes to the
WIC Food Package
Description: Assesses the
effect of birth month changes in
provision of infant formula made as part
of the implementing updated WIC food
packages on breastfeeding among program
participants.
Title: School Nutrition Dietary
Assessment IV
Description: Updates
information on three areas of interest
to policy makers: (1) characteristics of
the school environment and school food
service operations; (2) nutritional
quality of meals offered and served in
the school meal programs, and of foods
sold in competition with school meals;
and (3) student participation,
participant characteristics,
satisfaction, and related attitudes
toward the school lunch and breakfast
program.
Title:
Healthy Incentive Pilots (HIP)
Evaluation
Description: Mandated by the
Food, Conservation and Energy Act (FCEA)
of 2008, this project will pilot test
the effect of incentives at the
point-of-sale to encourage low-income
persons to purchase more fruits,
vegetables, or other healthy foods. The
legislation calls for a rigorous
evaluation that incorporates an
experimental design to the extent
possible to assess dietary and health
impacts.
Title: Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP)
Evaluation
Description: Assesses the
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program,
expanded across the nation by the FCEA,
to determine whether children (a)
experienced, as a result of
participating in the program, increased
consumption of fruits and vegetables and
(b) made other dietary changes, such as
decreased consumption of less nutritious
foods.
Click
here to review peer review
plans and reports for completed study
projects that yielded "influential
scientific information," and were
thus subject to the Bulletin's peer
review requirements.
Contact: Rich Lucas, FNS Peer
Review Official
Office of Research and Analysis
3101 Park Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302
Phone: (703) 305-2017
Email: Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov
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01/12/2009 |
