Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
Optimizing the Process for Establishing the Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2017-12-16

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 0309453607

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Federal guidance on nutrition and diet is intended to reflect the state of the science and deliver the most reliable recommendations possible according to the best available evidence. This guidance, updated and presented every 5 years in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA), serves as the basis for all federal nutrition policies and nutrition assistance programs, as well as nutrition education programs. Despite the use of the guidelines over the past 30 years, recent challenges prompted Congress to question the process by which food and nutrition guidance is developed. This report assesses the process used to develop the guidelines; it does not evaluate the substance or use of the guidelines. As part of an overall, comprehensive review of the process to update the DGA, this first report seeks to discover how the advisory committee selection process can be improved to provide more transparency, eliminate bias, and include committee members with a range of viewpoints for the purpose of informing the 2020 cycle.

The Scientific Advisory System
The Scientific Advisory System

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Science and Technology Committee

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13: 9780102176018

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This report looks at the way the Government uses scientific advice to inform its decision making, how it establishes the quality of its advice and whether the advisory structure works well. It examined four case studies: genetically modified foods, mobile phones and health, diabetes and driving licences and climate change. It concluded that not all is well with the system. The Government does not always seek advice when it needs it, nor ask the right questions. It is not always effective in assessing the advice when it gets it and does not always apply the advice in policy making. Reform is needed if public confidence is to be restored.

Federal Advisory Committees (FAC)
Federal Advisory Committees (FAC)

Author: Wendy R. Ginsberg

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 25

ISBN-13: 143798309X

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FAC, which may also be designated as commissions, councils, or task forces ¿ are created as provisional advisory bodies that can circumvent bureaucratic constraints to collect a variety of viewpoints on specific policy issues. FAC have been created to address a host of issues, ranging from policies on organ donation to the design and implementation of the Dept. of Homeland Security. These FAC are often created to help the gov¿t. manage and solve complex or divisive issues. Contents of this report: (1) Intro.: History; The Dept. of Justice; Congress. Action; The Pres. and the Exec. Branch; Congress. Reaction; (2) The Fed. Advisory Committee Act (FACA); (3) Creating a FACA Committee; (4) Analysis. This is a print on demand report.

Principles and Practices for Using Scientific Advice in Government Decision Making
Principles and Practices for Using Scientific Advice in Government Decision Making

Author: William Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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This report characterizes the international responses to the changing demands on the science policy process. Chapter 1 discusses the role of science advice in government decision making with regard to such issues as the science/policy interface, the decision-making environment, internal procedures & outside advice, quality control, risk assessment, science communications, and science in a social context. Chapters 2 & 3 review the key elements of different systems of science advising, best practices, and approaches to risk assessment & public communications in the European Union, New Zealand, the Nordic Union, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, the World Bank, and national science academies. Chapter 4 contains case studies that examine the effective use of different principles for the incorporation of science into decision making. The final chapter reviews the main points & lessons learned.

Advisory Committees
Advisory Committees

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 1408

ISBN-13:

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Role of Giant Corporations
Role of Giant Corporations

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Monopoly

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 1376

ISBN-13:

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Considers economic concentration within the U.S. automobile industry and its impact on consumers, competition, and technological progress, and its response to Government regulations.

The Government's review of the principles applying to the treatment of independent scientific advice provided to government
The Government's review of the principles applying to the treatment of independent scientific advice provided to government

Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Science and Technology Committee

Publisher: Stationery Office

Published: 2009-12-14

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780215542618

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The Government decided to consider and issue, by the end of December 2009, a set of principles applying to the treatment of independent scientific advice provided to Government. This followed the Home Secretary's dismissal of Professor David Nutt as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, and the concerns raised by senior scientists about treatment of scientific advice and advisers. The Committee endorses and recommends some changes to the statement of principles issued in November 2009 by Lord Rees, President of the Royal Society, and others concerning: (1) academic freedom; (2) independence of operation; (3) proper consideration of advice. The Committee welcomes the commitment of Lord Drayson, the Minister for Science and Innovation, to resolve the concerns. Any principles that emerge from the review must become part of the Code of practice for scientific advisory committees and the Guidelines on scientific analysis in policy making.