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8 Essential Nutrition Guidelines for Hospitalized Patients 

Culinary Services Group

Nutrition, especially high-quality dietary care, is often seconded to other, seemingly more pressing patient care matters. However, doing this has caused a significant gap in nutrition for patients. Providing the nutritional support your patients’ needs has more benefits than simply meeting the outlined standards, though.

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Defining Healthy Menus – What Restaurants Need to Know

Modern Restaurant Management

So the FDA in 2016 began the public process of considering a new definition for “healthy.” When it comes to the term “healthy,” which is a nutrient content claim, the FDA defined it more than 25 years ago in 1993 with a focus on total fats, saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.

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The Vegan Revolution: Celebrities Behind Vegan Brands

Modern Restaurant Management

The number of vegans in the UK quadrupled between 2016 and 2018, and last year there were 600,000 recorded vegans. What was once a relatively niche diet has certainly transformed into a cultural staple over the last few years.

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Unifying Human Food Regulation: A Conversation with Jim Jones

Food Safety Tech

At the EPA, Jones was a principal architect of the 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act and was also responsible for decision-making related to the regulation of pesticides and commercial chemicals. This will elevate, strengthen, and expand our nutrition work. as well as allocating resources to better protect consumer.

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FDA Names Jim Jones as First Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Food Quality & Safety

He will also lead efforts on nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. While at EPA, Jones was instrumental in the 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, the first update of that statute in more than four decades. Jones has more than three decades of experience in the U.S. food supply.

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Jim Jones to Serve as First FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods

Food Safety Tech

food supply in the face of climate change and globalization, as well as nutrition to help reduce diet-related diseases and improve health equity. At the EPA, he was a principal architect of the 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, the first update of that statute in more than 40 years. food supply.

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New FDA administrator says he is ready to cooperate to restructure the agency

Food Safety News

He was a principal architect of EPA’s 2016 overhaul of the Toxic Substances Control Act, the first update of that statute in more than 40 years. I am keenly aware of this extraordinary opportunity to modernize and integrate our food safety system and enhance our work to improve nutrition. “Of food supply.

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