The National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 required the Secretaries of the USDA and HHS to issue a Dietary Guidelines for Americans report at least every 5 years and required federal food- and nutrition-related policies and publications to be consistent with it.
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- The History and Future of Dietary Guidance in America - PMC (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47488 (congress.gov)
- https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/7/5341 (law.cornell.edu)
- https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title7/chapter84&edition=prelim (uscode.house.gov)
- https://www.cspi.org/DGAreach (cspi.org)