Food programs

As part of its Radionuclides in Food Program, the FDA determined concentrations of radionuclides in their Total Diet Study, as well as food originating from the vicinity of nuclear reactors including raw vegetables, food crops (primarily fruits), fish, and milk. While not specifically analyzed for 241Am, concentrations of... 

Mel nikov N.N. Vazhniye aspekfy khimizatsii sel skogo khozyaystva (Important Aspects of Using Chemicals in Agriculture) / / The Food Program and Tasks of Science. Moscow, 1983. P. 168-172. 

CDC recommends that states develop a plan to find children who may be exposed to lead and have their blood tested for lead. They make basic recommendations for states to follow. These include testing children at ages 1 and 2. Children who are 3 to 6 years old should be tested if they have never been tested for lead before and they receive services from public assistance programs for the poor such as Medicaid or the Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) if they live in a building or frequently visit a house built before 1950 if they visit a home (house or apartment) built before 1978 that has been recently remodeled or if they have a brother, sister, or playmate who has had lead poisoning. 

Longden, K. 1980. Domestic Food Programs An Overview. USDA Economics, Statistics and Cooperative Service. ESCS-81. Washington, D.C. 

Jarrett, R. D., Dosimetry and Dose Distribution, Eighth Contractors Meeting, Radiation Preservation of Food Program, PB 166166 (1964). 

A third diet sampling procedure is based on analysis of representative food items purchased locally and on food consumption statistics. The intake estimates are then calculated by multiplying the concentration estimate of each food by the respective consumption estimates per day or per year. This approach is used by EML in Sr in the diet program (Klusek, 1984), Argonne s Cs in the Chicago Foods Program (Karttunen, 1982), and the FDA s Total Diet Studies Program (Stroube and Jelinek, 1985). 

I. World Food Program and International Children s Emergency Fund. (UNICEF). Ending Child Hunger and Undemutrition Initiative. United Nations New York, NY, 2006. 

Birkhead, G.S, C.W. Lebaron, P. Parsons, J.C. Grabau, L. Barr-Gale, J. Fuhrman, S. Brooks, J. Rosenthal, S.C. Hadler, and D.L. Morse. 1995. "The Immunization of Children Enrolled in the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) The Impact of Different Strategies." Journal of the American Medical Association 2744 312-316. 

Jensen, E.T. Milk and Food Program, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service, Washington, DC (10, 135)... 

May 1982. USSR Food Program until 1990 which included the problems of land reclamation development October 1984. On long-term program of land impiovtanent, increase of reclaimed land use efficiency for the stable increment of food stocks of the country ... 

Functional Food Program Dr. Clare Hassler Bldg ABL, Rm 103 1302 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Urbana, IL 61801 (217) 244-7788... 

The National Cancer Institute, through its Experimental Food Program (3), has identified many phytochemicals that can interfere with and potentially block the biochemical pathways that lead to malignancy in animals. These phytochemicals fall into approximately 14 classes of substances that are present in common foods. They include sulfides, phytates, flavonoids, glucarates, carotenoids, coumarins, monoterpenes, triterpenes, lignans, phenolic acids, indoles, isothiocyanates, and polyacetylenes. 

During the Industrial Revolution, there was widespread incidence of rickets in both children and adults, because inadequate exposure to sunlight prevented the biosynthesis of active vitamin D in the skin. Both rickets and osteomalacia are metabolic bone diseases that are characterized by poor bone mineralization. Without adequate plasma levels of vitamin D and calcium, deposition of the calcium salts in the bone markedly decreases. Vitamin D supplementation (to improve intestinal absorption of calcium and mineralization of the bone) as well as oral calcium supplementation are required to treat these diseases once established. The incidence of rickets in the United States dropped dramatically through vitamin D-supplemented food programs. The increased use of milk substitutes (e.g., soy) and reduced exposure to sunlight has recently led to a rise in rickets. Rickets is still considered to be a worldwide health problem. 

The AQIS organic program will directly cost the Australian organic and biodynamic industry A 84,500 (approx. US 46,500) for the 2002-03 financial year. This sum is divided into seven certifying bodies...and I assume is then passed onto approx 1 700 clients Australia wide. Ian Lyall, Food Program, AQIS, personal communications, August 2002. 

In Ethiopia, aid groups brought in cooking oil as part of a food program. This oil competed directly with local producers and drove them out of business. The longterm consequence was a prolonging of the disaster. 

Despite the prospective and generated benefits of DNA sequencing, the use of this technique has raised ethical, legal, and social questions. Concerns exist regarding genetic determinism and discrimination, the manipulation of an individual s attributes, the loss of genetic privacy, and the modification of food. Programs have been created in response to these concerns. 

Food Insecurity. Food insecurity affects more than 1.02 billion people worldwide. Almost 15 percent of Americans (nearly 50 million people) are food insecure. Of these people, about 8 percent have very low food security, causing reduced food intake and disruption of normal eating patterns. The remainder use a variety of coping strategies, including participation in various food programs. 

Qing Shen, PhD School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Nutrition and Foods Program, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, USA... 

What are unit costs For example, for public works, what is the share of unskilled labor in total costs For food programs, what is the cost per calorie provided For training programs, what is the cost per trainee How do unit costs compare with appropriate local benchmarks or good international practice ... 

List the country s main public programs child allowances, noncontributory pensions, needs-based social assistance, food programs, public works, targeted fee waivers, any other social assistance programs, unemployment insurance and assistance or active labor market policies, contributory pensions, and so on. 

---