The U.S. Action Plan on Food Security is scheduled to be released early in 1998. This action plan will be based on domestic and international discussion papers. The international discussion paper was released to the public in mid-October and is available on the Food Security home page (http://www.fas.usda.gov/icd/summit/summit.html). The paper includes input gained through a series of national consultations and public meetings held this past spring and summer. A workshop on the domestic paper is set for December 1997.
This activity follows up on the World Food Summit held in November 1996. The U.S. response to the summit is coordinated by a senior-level Interagency Working Group (IWG) that is co-chaired by the Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and State and the U.S. Agency for International Development. The IWG adopted the World Food Summit Plan of Action target of reducing the number of undernourished people by half no later than the year 2015. A subgroup, co-chaired by USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has been formed to focus on U.S. domestic food security and under nutrition issues.
USDA and HHS plan to establish a Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and invite nominations. The committee will determine if revisions of the 1995 Nutrition and Your Health: Dietary Guidelines for Americans is warranted based on thorough evaluation of recent scientific and applied literature. If so, the Committee will develop recommendations for these revisions.
Prospective members of the Committee should be knowledgeable of current scientific research in human nutrition and be respected and published experts in their fields. They should be familiar with the purpose and application of the Dietary Guidelines and have demonstrated interest in the public's health and well-being through their research and/or educational endeavors. Nominations should document the nominee's qualifications in the relevant subject areas.
More information is available from:
Junko Alice Tamaki
Co-Executive Secretary from USDA to the
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Agricultural Research
Service
10300 Baltimore Blvd., Room 332, Bldg. 005
Beltsville, MD 20705
(301)504-6216
William Layden
Co-Executive Secretary from USDA to the
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
1120 20th Street, NW., Suite 200 North Lobby
Washington, DC 20036
(202)418-2312
Kathryn McMurry or Linda Meyers
Co-Executive Secretaries from HHS to the
Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Office of Public Health and Science
Room 738G, Humphrey Building
200 Independence Avenue, SW.
Washington, DC 20201
(202)205-4872
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