“A bill to amend the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 to improve the dietary guidelines, and for other purposes.”
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This section revises the requirements for the Dietary Guidelines for Americans—jointly issued by USDA and HHS to provide science-based nutrition recommendations—by (1) extending the issuance frequency to at least every 10 years (from every five years); (2) applying rulemaking requirements under 5 U.S.C. 553 to each report's development; (3) specifying that reports must be based on significant scientific agreement via evidence-based review (as defined), current, derived from questions developed by a new Independent Advisory Board, address high-priority health areas, promote nutritional adequacy per the National Academies, cover chronic diseases, and provide affordable/accessible recommendations; (4) authorizing more frequent issuance based on dietary reference intake (DRI) updates; (5) requiring 90-day advance congressional notification of planned updates with justification; (6) establishing an Independent Advisory Board of up to 8 nutrition/food science experts (4 appointed by the Secretaries including 2 non-federal employees, plus 1 each by ranking minority members of specified committees) to develop scientific questions within 1 year of notification (with 6/8 quorum and automatic termination thereafter); (7) directing coordination with the Joint United States-Canada DRI Working Group for at least annual updates; and (8) excluding irrelevant topics (e.g., taxation, food production practices) from reports, as determined by the Secretaries in consultation with the Board.