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Recommended Dietary Allowances: More Research and Better Food Guides Needed

CED-78-169 Published: Nov 30, 1978. Publicly Released: Nov 30, 1978.
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Recommended dietary allowances in planning diets, evaluating nutritional contents of food, establishing guidelines for food labeling, and developing new food products can be used properly only when their meanings are understood.

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