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[CITE: 7USC5301]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
     CHAPTER 84--NATIONAL NUTRITION MONITORING AND RELATED RESEARCH
 
Sec. 5301. Congressional statement of purposes

    The purposes of this chapter are to--
        (1) make more effective use of Federal and State expenditures 
    for nutrition monitoring, and enhance the performance and benefits 
    of current Federal nutrition monitoring and related research 
    activities;
        (2) establish and facilitate the timely implementation of a 
    coordinated National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research 
    Program, and thereby provide a scientific basis for the maintenance 
    and improvement of the nutritional status of the people of the 
    United States and the nutritional quality (including, but not 
    limited to, nutritive and nonnutritive content) of food consumed in 
    the United States;
        (3) establish and implement a comprehensive plan for the 
    National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program to 
    assess, on a continuing basis, the dietary and nutritional status of 
    the people of the United States and the trends with respect to such 
    status, the state of the art with respect to nutrition monitoring 
    and related research, future monitoring and related research 
    priorities, and the relevant policy implications;
        (4) establish and improve the quality of national nutritional 
    and health status data and related data bases and networks, and 
    stimulate research necessary to develop uniform indicators, 
    standards, methodologies, technologies, and procedures for nutrition 
    monitoring;
        (5) establish a central Federal focus for the coordination, 
    management, and direction of Federal nutrition monitoring 
    activities;
        (6) establish mechanisms for addressing the nutrition monitoring 
    needs of Federal, State, and local governments, the private sector, 
    scientific and engineering communities, health care professionals, 
    and the public in support of the foregoing purposes; and
        (7) provide for the conduct of such scientific research and 
    development as may be necessary or appropriate in support of such 
    purposes.

(Pub. L. 101-445, Sec. 2, Oct. 22, 1990, 104 Stat. 1034.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 101-445 provided that: ``This Act [enacting 
this chapter] may be cited as the `National Nutrition Monitoring and 
Related Research Act of 1990'.''
