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Peer
Review
As required under the Office of
Management and Budget's "Final
Information Quality Bulletin for Peer
Review," published in the Federal
Register on January 14, 2005, the Food
and Nutrition Service reviews its study
and evaluation plans to determine
whether any projects currently planned
or underway meet the Bulletin's
standards for "highly influential
scientific assessments" or
"influential scientific
information".
The agency has concluded from its
most recent review that is not currently
preparing or sponsoring any "highly
influential scientific
assessments." Seven current projects
are expected to yield "influential
scientific information". Peer
review plans for these projects are
linked below:
Title: Summer EBT for Children
Comprehensive Final Report
Description: Authorized under
the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food
and Drug Administration , and Related
Agencies Appropriations Act (P.L.
111-8), the Summer EBT for Children (SEBTC)
demonstrations rigorously test and
evaluate the extent to which the use of
electronic benefits technologies can be
used to reduce food insecurity among
children eligible for assistance through
the FNS National School Lunch and Summer
Food Service Programs. During the
summer, when school is not in session,
only about fifteen percent of eligible
children are reached by these feeding
programs. SEBTC is intended to bridge
this gap.
Title: Study of Nutrition and Wellness
Quality in Child Care Settings (Sec. 223
of PL 111-296)
Description: Required by
Section 223 of the Healthy, Hunger-Free
Kids Act of 2010, the study is a
nationally representative study of child
care centers and family or group day
care homes that includes an assessment
of (1) the nutritional quality of all
foods provided to children in child care
settings as compared to the
recommendations in most recent Dietary
Guidelines for Americans, (2) the
quantity and type of opportunities for
physical activity provided to children
in child care settings; (3) the quantity
of time spent by children in child care
settings in sedentary activities; and
(4) an assessment of barriers and
facilitators to nutritional and wellness
quality.
Title: WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding
Practices Study-2 Interim and Final
Reports
Description: A national,
longitudinal data collection regarding
contemporary WIC infant and toddler
feeding practices, including the
duration of breastfeeding, the age and
pattern of introduction of foods other
than breast milk or formula, and the age
of introduction of cow’s milk. The study
is examining the influences that shape a
mother’s infant and toddler feeding
decisions and describing the changes in
feeding practices as the children
develop. This study also collects
information on nutrition education,
breastfeeding promotion, and support
provided to participants.
Title: School Nutrition Dietary
Assessment IV
Description: Updates
information on three areas of interest
to policy makers: (1) characteristics of
the school environment and school food
service operations; (2) nutritional
quality of meals offered and served in
the school meal programs, and of foods
sold in competition with school meals;
and (3) student participation,
participant characteristics,
satisfaction, and related attitudes
toward the school lunch and breakfast
program.
Title: Fresh
Fruit and Vegetable Program (FFVP)
Evaluation
Description: Assesses the
Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program,
expanded across the nation by the FCEA,
to determine whether children (a)
experienced, as a result of
participating in the program, increased
consumption of fruits and vegetables and
(b) made other dietary changes, such as
decreased consumption of less nutritious
foods.
Title:
Healthy Incentive Pilots (HIP)
Evaluation
Description: The Food
Conservation and Energy Act of 2008
authorized USDA to carry out pilot
projects to develop, test and evaluate
methods of using the Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to
improve the dietary and health status of
households eligible for or participating
in SNAP. Specifically, it provides $20
million to test the effects of providing
financial incentives at the
point-of-purchase to encourage SNAP
households to purchase fruits,
vegetables or other healthful foods.
Click
here to review peer review
plans and reports for completed study
projects that yielded "influential
scientific information," and were
thus subject to the Bulletin's peer
review requirements.
Contact: Richard Lucas, FNS Peer
Review Official
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Research, Analysis,
Communications and Strategic Support
3101 Park Center Drive
Alexandria, VA 22302
Phone: (703) 305-2017
Email: Richard.Lucas@fns.usda.gov
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