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Browsing NABC Report 14: Foods For Health: Integrating Agriculture, Medicine and Food for Future Health by Issue Date
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Integrating Agriculture, Medicine and Food for Future Health
Unknown author (NABC, 2002)The promise of biotechnology, especially as it relates to food, is about shared responsibility and trust. Merging healthful eating with medicines in our foods is part of the promise of biotechnology and food-based products ... -
Our Healthy Future: the global context
McGovern, George (NABC, 2002)The World Food Summit’s resolution is to halve the number of chronically hungry people in the world—from 800 million to 400 million—by 2015. The United Nations, with the United States in the lead, need commit to providing ... -
Supporting comprehensive foods for health research: A new model
Clutter, Mary (NABC, 2002)Twenty-first century biology will be increasingly multi-disciplinary and multidimensional. Whereas the biology of the 20th century was mainly reductionist, new technologies and new disciplines will address questions from ... -
The Center for Plants and Human Health: An interdisciplinary approach
Gardner, Gary (NABC, 2002)The current model for competitive research funding in the United States is primarily single-principal-investigator grants in a single discipline, but new approaches to the relationships between plants and human health will ... -
Consumer impact on nutritional products
Snyder, Steve; Rosenberg, Roberta (NABC, 2002)Industry will continue to play a valuable role in developing healthy, effective, and safe ingredients, and in making new functional foods available to the consumer. These contributions fall into four major categories: ... -
Integrative medicine: Agriculture’s new opportunity
Plotnikoff, Gregory A. (NABC, 2002)In regard to the public’s health, agriculture and the prepared-food industry have both a significant responsibility and a significant opportunity. New partnerships must be developed to identify the best business- and best ... -
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Q&A : The Food Industry: Promoting Public Health
Muscoplat, Charles C (NABC, 2002)Q&A: Developments in safe and healthy foods -
The food industry: Promoting public health
Crockett, Susan (NABC, 2002)The food industry provides a key link between agriculture and health, and is an important contributor to public health. Direct and indirect communications are necessary in order to reach consumers with public-health ... -
Where do functional foods fit in the diet?
Clare Hasler (NABC, 2002)Functional foods are whole foods enhanced to provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition. Enhanced nutrition and dietary modification can dramatically reduce incidence of some diseases. Dietary changes, including greater ... -
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Farmers as consumers: making choices
Horan, William (NABC, 2002)Use of biotech seed on his farm can save hours of labor. Strict methods of segregation keep pharmaceutical corn isolated from crops meant for other purposes. -
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Innovations for safe egg products
Ball, Jr., Hershell (NABC, 2002)Pasteurized egg products have an excellent safety history. Shell eggs can be pasteurized to provide a safe alternative for foods made with raw or minimally cooked eggs. Closely coupling egg production and breaking results ... -
Genetically engineered “Foods for Health”: Are we asking the right (ethical) questions?
Burkhardt, Jeffrey (NABC, 2002)Scientists will be judged in terms of benefits rendered to the human race. Scientists believe that what they are doing is justifiable, yet cannot justify why that is. The bottom line is that biotechnology will provide ... -
Discussions on treatment, prevention and consumer Choice
Carlson, Carla (NABC, 2002)Workshop report and recommendations -
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The National safety first initiative
Kapuscinski, Anne (NABC, 2002)The National Safety First Initiative is a diverse coalition addressing biosafety issues—to ensure that the promises of agricultural biotechnology will be realized—by drawing up cross-industry, publicly trusted standards ...