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Nutrition Monitoring: Data Serve Many Purposes, But Users Recommend Improvements

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date June 20, 1995
Report No. PEMD-95-15
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Summary:

The National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program consists of a network of surveys, surveillance systems, and research activities that serves various purposes. It provides researchers and decisionmakers with data for assessing the safety of the nation's food supply, targeting food assistance to low-income families, and studying the relationship between diet and disease. The program has been criticized, however, for the lack of coordination among the various activities and its poor coverage of populations at risk of nutritional problems. GAO surveyed users of nutrition-monitoring data. This report (1) describes the users and the major uses of nutrition-monitoring data and (2) summarizes user satisfaction with nutrition-monitoring activities and the changes that users believe are likely to increase their use of, or confidence in, the data.

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