Nutrition

White House Conference Urges on Human Nutrition Research

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, April 14th, 1997

John Cordaro, Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), urged a federal advisory board to support a White House Conference on human nutrition research focusing on prevention and consumer education.

"Such a conference could help establish a national agenda for human nutrition research and education," Cordaro said. His comments were made to a Stakeholder Symposium, held by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, D.C., March 25-27, 1997.

Cordaro criticized the use of "scarce research dollars" over the past 20 years, since the passage of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977. That landmark legislation designated USDA as the lead...

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