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Foodborne Disease and Public Health: Summary of an Iranian-American Workshop (2008)

The Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board and the National Research Council's Policy and Global Affairs Division convened a workshop in Washington, D.C., entitled Foodborne Disease and Public Health: An Iranian-American Workshop. The...
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Nutrition Standards and Meal Requirements for National School Lunch and Breakfast Programs: Phase I. Proposed Approach for Recommending Revisions (2008)

The National School Breakfast Program feeds 10 million children each day, and the National School Lunch Program feeds more than 30 million students. Yet the national nutrition standards and meal requirements for these meals were created more than a...
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The Development of DRIs 1994-2004: Lessons Learned and New Challenges: Workshop Summary (2008)

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Use of Dietary Supplements by Military Personnel (2008)

Dietary supplements are widely available through a rapidly expanding market of products commonly advertised as beneficial for health, performance enhancement, and disease prevention. Given the importance and frequent evaluation of physical...
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Contributions of Land Remote Sensing for Decisions About Food Security and Human Health: Workshop Report (2007)

Land remote sensing: the use of space-based satellite technologies to obtain information on environmental variables such as land-use and land-covering combination with other types of data can provide information on changes in the Earth�s surface