TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine AU - National Research Council TI - Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food SN - DO - 10.17226/10690 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10690/scientific-criteria-to-ensure-safe-food PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Food and Nutrition AB - Food safety regulators face a daunting task: crafting food safety performance standards and systems that continue in the tradition of using the best available science to protect the health of the American public, while working within an increasingly antiquated and fragmented regulatory framework. Current food safety standards have been set over a period of years and under diverse circumstances, based on a host of scientific, legal, and practical constraints. Scientific Criteria to Ensure Safe Food lays the groundwork for creating new regulations that are consistent, reliable, and ensure the best protection for the health of American consumers. This book addresses the biggest concerns in food safety—including microbial disease surveillance plans, tools for establishing food safety criteria, and issues specific to meat, dairy, poultry, seafood, and produce. It provides a candid analysis of the problems with the current system, and outlines the major components of the task at hand: creating workable, streamlined food safety standards and practices. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine TI - Dietary Reference Intakes: Applications in Dietary Planning SN - DO - 10.17226/10609 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10609/dietary-reference-intakes-applications-in-dietary-planning PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Food and Nutrition AB - The Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are quantitative estimates of nutrient intakes to be used for planning and assessing diets for apparently healthy people. This volume is the second of two reports in the DRI series aimed at providing specific guidance on the appropriate uses of the DRIs. The first report provided guidance on appropriate methods for using DRIs in dietary assessment. This volume builds on the statistical foundations of the assessment report to provide specific guidance on how to use the appropriate DRIs in planning diets for individuals and for groups. Dietary planning, whether for an individual or a group, involves developing a diet that is nutritionally adequate without being excessive. The planning goal for individuals is to achieve recommended and adequate nutrient intakes using food-based guides. For group planning, the report presents a new approach based on considering the entire distribution of usual nutrient intakes rather than focusing on the mean intake of the group. The report stresses that dietary planning using the DRIs is a cyclical activity that involves assessment, planning, implementation, and reassessment. Nutrition and public health researchers, dietitians and nutritionists responsible for the education of the next generation of practitioners, and government professionals involved in the development and implementation of national diet and health assessments, public education efforts and food assistance programs will find this volume indispensable for setting intake goals for individuals and groups. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Michele Ver Ploeg A2 - David M. Betson TI - Estimating Eligibility and Participation for the WIC Program: Final Report SN - DO - 10.17226/10804 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10804/estimating-eligibility-and-participation-for-the-wic-program-final-report PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Food and Nutrition KW - Behavioral and Social Sciences KW - Surveys and Statistics AB - This report reviews the methods used to estimate the national number of people eligible to participate in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) under full funding of the program. It reviews alternative data sets and methods for estimating income eligibility, adjunctive eligibility (which occurs when people are eligible for WIC because they are enrolled in other federal public assistance programs) and nutritional risk, as well as for estimating participation if the program is fully funded. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine A2 - Stacey L. Knobler A2 - Stanley M. Lemon A2 - Marian Najafi A2 - Tom Burroughs TI - The Resistance Phenomenon in Microbes and Infectious Disease Vectors: Implications for Human Health and Strategies for Containment: Workshop Summary SN - DO - 10.17226/10651 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10651/the-resistance-phenomenon-in-microbes-and-infectious-disease-vectors-implications PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Health and Medicine KW - Food and Nutrition AB - The resistance topic is timely given current events. The emergence of mysterious new diseases, such as SARS, and the looming threat of bioterrorist attacks remind us of how vulnerable we can be to infectious agents. With advances in medical technologies, we have tamed many former microbial foes, yet with few new antimicrobial agents and vaccines in the pipeline, and rapidly increasing drug resistance among infectious microbes, we teeter on the brink of loosing the upperhand in our ongoing struggle against these foes, old and new. The Resistance Phenomenon in Microbes and Infectious Disease Vectors examines our understanding of the relationships among microbes, disease vectors, and human hosts, and explores possible new strategies for meeting the challenge of resistance. ER -