Nutrition policies prevention

Hetzel BS. The Prevention and Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders. Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper no. 3Rome United Nations ACC/SCN . 1988. 

UK Department of Health (2000) Folic Acid and the Prevention of Disease. Report of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food and Nutritional Policy. Norwich Her Majesty s Stationary Office. 

West KP Jr and Sommer A (1987) Delivery of Oral Doses of Vitamin A to Prevent Vitamin A Deficiency and Nutritional Blindness. A State-of-the-Art Review, Nutrition Policy Discussion Paper No. 2. Rome United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination, Subcommittee on Nutrition. 

Disease prevention is an easily understood and well-accepted strategy among public health programmes worldwide. However, both public and private health care policy makers need evidence that prevention strategies are effective and provide value to their populations within the constraints of their local health care finances. Such financial resources are limited and shared across public health concerns including prevention of the spread of infectious diseases, other chronic illnesses (e.g. diabetes, hypertension), disability such as blindness, and health maintenance (e.g. nutrition or oral hygiene programmes). 

The plastics industry is mainly concerned with the Bureau of Foods, which conducts research and develops standards on the composition, quality, nutrition, and safety of foods, food additives, colors, and cosmetics, and conducts research designed to improve the detection, prevention, and control of contamination. The FDA is concerned about indirect additives. Indirect additives are those substances capable of migrating into food from contacting plastic materials. Extensive tests are carried out by the FDA before issuing a safety clearance to any plastic material that is to be used in food contact applications. Plastics used in medical devices are tested with extreme caution by the FDA s Bureau of Medical Devices, which develops FDA policy regarding the safety and effectiveness of medical devices. 

National policies and international trade practices must be shaped to facilitate the wide availability and uptake of such diets. Nutrition counseling of individuals at high risk must also adopt these principles while customizing dietary advice to specific needs of the person. CHD is eminently preventable, as evident from research and demonstrated in practice... 

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