A brief history of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrient Data Bank

Haytowitz, D.B.

Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutricion 40(1): 9-21

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0004-0622
PMID: 2103719
Document Number: 360688
The Department of Agriculture of the USA has been collecting, evaluating and publishing food composition data for nearly a century. Although entitled a brief history, the emphasis of this paper is on current functioning of the USDA's Nutrient Data Bank, in particular work on the production of a revision of Agriculture Handbook No. 8 first published in 1950 and revised in 1963.

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