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[CITE: 7USC3171]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
       CHAPTER 64--AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND TEACHING
 
SUBCHAPTER IV--NATIONAL FOOD AND HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH AND EXTENSION 
                                 PROGRAM
 
Sec. 3171. Congressional findings and declaration of policy


(a) Findings

    Congress finds that there is increasing evidence of a relationship 
between diet and many of the leading causes of death in the United 
States: that improved nutrition is an integral component of preventive 
health care; that there is a serious need for research on the chronic 
effects of diet on degenerative diseases and related disorders; that 
nutrition and health considerations are important to United States 
agricultural policy; that there is insufficient knowledge concerning 
precise human nutritional requirements, the interaction of the various 
nutritional constituents of food, and differences in nutritional 
requirements among different population groups such as infants, 
children, adolescents, elderly men and women, and pregnant women; and 
that there is a critical need for objective data concerning food safety, 
the potential of food enrichment, and means to encourage better 
nutritional practices.

(b) Declaration of policy

    It is declared to be the policy of the United States that the 
Department of Agriculture conduct research in the fields of human 
nutrition and the nutritive value of foods and conduct human nutrition 
education activities, as provided in this subchapter.

(Pub. L. 95-113, title XIV, Sec. 1421, Sept. 29, 1977, 91 Stat. 999.)


                             Effective Date

    Subchapter effective Oct. 1, 1977, see section 1901 of Pub. L. 95-
113, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under section 
1307 of this title.
