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7 U.S.C. § 3173 — Research by Department of Agriculture

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7 U.S.C. § 3173 — Research by Department of Agriculture

**(a) Increase in level of support** The Secretary shall establish research into food and human nutrition as a separate and distinct mission of the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretary shall increase support for such research to a level that provides resources adequate to meet the policy of this subchapter. **(b) Periodic consultation with administrators of other Federal departments and agencies** The Secretary, in administering the food and human nutrition research program, shall periodically consult with the administrators of the other Federal departments and agencies that have responsibility for programs dealing with human food and nutrition, as to the specific research needs of those departments and agencies.

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7 U.S.C. § 1307 — Consumer safeguards

The powers conferred under this chapter shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the Secretary from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920 to 1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such period, current trends in domestic consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class of food commodities. In carrying out the purposes of this chapter it shall be the duty of the Secretary to give due regard to the maintenance of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities from domestic production adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair to both producers and consumers.

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7 U.S.C. § 3121 — Responsibilities of Secretary and Department of Agriculture

The Department of Agriculture is designated as the lead agency of the Federal Government for agricultural research (except with respect to the biomedical aspects of human nutrition concerned with diagnosis or treatment of disease), extension, and teaching in the food and agricultural sciences, and the Secretary, in carrying out the Secretary’s responsibilities, shall— (1) establish jointly with the Secretary of Health and Human Services procedures for coordination with respect to nutrition research in areas of mutual interest; (2) keep informed of developments in, and the Nation’s need for, research, extension, teaching, and manpower development in the food and agricultural sciences and represent such need in deliberations within the Department of Agriculture, elsewhere within the executive branch of the United States Government, and with the several States and their designated land-grant colleges and universities, other colleges and universities, agricultural and related industries, and other interested institutions and groups; (3) coordinate all agricultural research, extension, and teaching activity conducted or financed by the Department of Agriculture and, to the maximum extent practicable, by other agencies of the executive branch of the United States Government; (4) take the initiative in establishing coordination of State-Federal cooperative agricultural research, extension, and teaching programs, funded in whole or in part by the Department of Agriculture in each State, through the administrative heads of land-grant colleges and universities and the State directors of agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension services, and other appropriate program administrators; (5) consult the Advisory Board and appropriate advisory committees of the De

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7 U.S.C. § 3173 — Research by Department of Agriculture

Page 1596 TITLE 7—AGRICULTURE § 3171 Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT The Hatch Act of 1887, referred to in subsec. (c)(2), is act Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, 24 Stat. 440, which is classified generally to sections 361a to 361i of this title. For com- plete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 361a of this title and Tables. Public Law 87–788, referred to in subsec. (c)(4), is Pub. L. 87–788, Oct. 10, 1962, 76 Stat. 806, popularly known as the ‘‘McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962’’ and also as the ‘‘McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Act’’, which is classified generally to subchapter III (§ 582a et seq.) of chapter 3 of Title 16, Conservation. For complete classi- fication of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 582a of Title 16 and Tables. SUBCHAPTER IV—NATIONAL FOOD AND HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH AND EX- TENSION PROGRAM § 3171. Congressional findings and declaration of policy (a) Findings Congress finds that there is increasing evi- dence of a relationship between diet and many of the leading causes of death in the United States: that improved nutrition is an integral component of preventive health care; that there is a serious need for research on the chronic ef- fects of diet on degenerative diseases and related disorders; that nutrition and health consider- ations are important to United States agricul- tural policy; that there is insufficient knowl- edge concerning precise human nutritional re- quirements, the interaction of the various nutri- tional constituents of food, and differences in nutritional requirements among different popu- lation groups such as infants, children, adoles- cents, elderly men and women, and pregnant women; and that there is a critical need for o

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