Food and Nutrition Board

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Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), founded in 1940, is a corporation within the US non-profit and non-governmental organization National Academy of Medicine (NAM). It examines issues of national and global significance with respect to the safety, quality and quantity of the food supply in the United States - roughly comparable with the European Agency for Food Safety (English: European Food Safety Authority , EFSA ).

On behalf of the NAM, it lays down principles and guidelines for good nutrition and provides binding guidelines on food intake, health care and disease prevention. It provides specific scientific assessments in its publications. For example, the Food and Nutrition Board developed during the time of World War II, the so-called Recommended Daily Allowances (RDAs) list. This is still used today (in an updated form) and is a compilation of the recommended daily amount of essential nutrients to meet a person's daily needs (“recommended daily allowance”).

The Food and Nutrition Board also advises government agencies on the nutritional status and health of the US population, nutritional research, food safety, food technology and processing, and food resources.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Via the Food and Nutrition Board on the website of the American National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the umbrella organization of FNB and NAM)
  2. ↑ Via the Food and Nutrition Board on HealthFinder.gov, provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services

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