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U.S. Code > Title 7 > Chapter 84 > § 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.

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