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AUSTRALIA

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare: Does research into the health and social security systems. Their site has some excellent on-lien publications on these topics, including lots of public health nutrition information.
Australian and New Zealand Food Authority: The regulatory advisory body serving the two Australasian governments. The site has Information on what it does and its internal structure.
CSIRO Division of Human Nutrition: Information about the Division, search engine for CSIRO public documents, some nutrition related links.
CSIRO Division of Food Science and Technology: Information on the CSIRO and on this Division.
Commonwealth Dpt. of Human Services and Health

National Health & Medical Research Council: Organisational details, current publications and draft documents for public consultation (not many up as yet).
Food Victoria: "Food Victoria is a major initiative of the Victorian State Government which brings together key personnel from industry and government to increase the international competitiveness of the food and food processing industries." Plain text departmental details only.
Victorian Health Department: Public Health Branch: A range of activities described and documents on-line. This includes report into health status of Victorians, the Division's newsletter HealthFocus, and the full text of a review of antioxidant supplementation.

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NORTH AMERICA

USDA: United States Department of Agriculture: the main home page, off which comes the many departments which are listed below.
USDA: Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center: Part of USDA. Provides information on mission, activities and personnel under the Centre's various units and labs, such as food composition, diet and human performance, carotenoids, food survey research etc.
USDA: Food Survey Research Group: Part of Agricultural Research Service, USDA. Site contains information on the group, its activities, and its mailing list (Survey). Short summaries of results from its various national dietary surveys, together with a bibliography of material using this data. Also some links to other government sites.
USDA: Center for Nutrition Policy Promotion: "created in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, December 1, 1994, with the overall mission to improve the nutritional status of Americans by linking scientific research to the consumer". This page has information on dietary guidelines, food pyramid etc., both lay resources and background documents.
USDA: Cooperative State Research, Extension Service: Information and support services for agricultural universities and cooperative extension.
USDA: Food Safety and Inspection Service: Organisational information plus some of their lay publications, news and "Food Safety Educator" newsletter.
USDA: National Agricultural Library: Access to ISIS data base, if you have telnet capability.
USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory: Entry point for learning about the NDL, getting the news on its activities and searching the USDA food tables.
USDA: Food Nutrition Information Center: Access to lots of information on nutrition resources, lay publications, Nat.Agric.Library, dietary guidelines (and full report of that committee), food labelling and food illness.
FDA: Their main home page, with many branches underneath it.
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition: A part of the FDA. They offer public health material as well as food science resources.
US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Nothing much of their activities, only the membership and jurisdiction.
Colorado Department of Education: Child Nutrition Unit: Description of the unit and its education and other activities. There is no actual resource material on-line yet.
Health Canada Nutrition Program Unit: Information about various nutrition monitoring programs.
National Institute of Nutrition: Information on the organisation and on public health nutrition in Canada. Sections on consumer trends, access to several newsletters, scientific reports and educational resources. Has a subject index. There are still some technical bugs to iron out in this site, but it has much promise.
British Columbia Ministry Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Information on food legislation and food industry development policies.
Ministry of Agriculture. Fisheries and Nutrition (Quebec): Content in French.

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OTHER COUNTRIES

German Federal Research Centre for Nutrition: Mainly organisation information.
National Institute of Health and Nutrition, Japan: Division of Food Science: Organisational information.
Medical Research Council Dunn Nutrition Centre: Organisational history and details about this prestigious English Nutrition research unit. Also access to abstracts of their staff's published research papers.

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INTERNATIONAL

WHO: Epidemiological and world health reports, as well as organisational information.
WHO - Division of Food and Nutrition: Home to the Food Safety and Nutrition Programs, both of which have their own sites.
FAO: Organisational information including publications.
World Agricultural Information Center (FAO): An FAO project to make information on its agricutural and nutrition projects more widely available. There is also another nutrition web page which has material on the CODEX, various papers and conference reports.
Unicef: Information on the world body.
World Bank gopher

WHO (Europe).: Home page.

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NUTRITION: IN HOSPITAL SETTINGS

Cyberspace Dietetics, Hospitals: Page of hospital training positions.
Arkansas Childrens Hospital: Clinical Nutrition & Research: Email addresses of staff.
Massachusetts General Hospital dietetic department: Intend to have regular consumer nutrition updates.
National Nutrition Institute, Mexico: Hospital with clinical and research nutrition focus. The web site has organisational information in English and Spanish.

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NUTRITION: OTHER ORGANISATIONS

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LISTS OF OTHER NUTRITION ORGANISATIONS

List of NGOs: List of non-governmental organistations. This is not specific to nutrition, but many of them work in the developing world or disadvantaged communities, and have an interest in food security issues.
Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Biotech Companies on the Web: Sherrod Research Co. has produced this list, wiithout annotations..
NAL list: agribusiness and food industry associations: Very large listing of agribusiness, food industry & forest industry associations on the Internet, compiled by Carol Singer of the USDA's National Agricultural Library. Listed by geographical area, including international. This new resource from the Agricultural Trade and Marketing Information Center section of NALUSDA won't win any prizes for graphic appeal, but the breadth of research that went into this document is extraordinary.

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OTHER NUTRITION ORGANISATIONS: INTERNATIONAL

Note: United Nations organisations such as FAO, WHO etc. are listed under: Nutrition Government: international

International Food Information Council Foundation(IFIC): This is an old site but has been extensively reworked and is now an excellent site for food and food safety information. Lots of links and resources from IFIC (e.g. Gallup poll results, information for consumers, educators, children etc.)
INFOODS: Food composition project still in formative stages. Also list of some nutrition resources.
International Society for Molecular Nutrition and Therapy: "a new scientific society which will focus on the mechanisms of specific effects of nutrients and drugs in chronic diseases, their possible interactions as well as the mechanism of their protective or therapeutic action."
International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine: Brief organisational information plus access to J.Orthom.Medicine.
International Union of Nutrition Sciences (IUNS): Holds much promise of being an excellent resource. Although not all pages are up yet, the site is intended to have information on IUNS organisational structure and activities, to be a starting point for electronic exchange on nutrition, and also to hold more general information on nutrition organisations and publications, research and education.
Weight Watchers: Contact information for local chapters, news and on-line forum, nutrition facts and eating plans, nutrition facts, interactive quiz.

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OTHER NUTRITION ORGANISATIONS: AUSTRALIA and New Zealand

Australasian Society for Study of Obesity: Information on the Society and some information on obesity issues, including a list of literature references and the Society's position statement on very low calorie diets.
Australian Iron Status Advisory Panel: Public health oriented group of Australian experts in iron status disorders. This site contains a great deal of information on the clinical management of iron disorders, particularly iron deficiency. It includes both practical guides for the health professional and technical papers. It is plannaed to also include lay information and position statements in the future.
Australian Nutrition Foundation: Colourful well produced site on Australia's leading nutrition education organisation. The web site has news, the latest newsletter (nicely illustrated), organisational information and catalogue of pamphlets (but no content on-line).
Children's Nutrition Research Centre (Brisbane): Information only.
Chinese Health Foundation of Australia: Information about the foundation and its research and education projects amongst the Australian Chinese community. The material is in English, (although there are some Chinese characters scattered around!).
Dietitians Association of Australia: Some nutrition links, and promised but not yet present ("under construction") are: Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, professional articles, case studies, research updates, book reviews.
Meat Research Corporation (Australia): Links to modest amount of information on meat industry in Australia and overseas.
New Zealand Institute Crop and Food Research: Crop and food science research, INFOODS ("a comprehensive effort, under the United Nations University Food and Nutrition Programme, to improve data on the nutrient composition of foods from all parts of the world").
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia: Mainly organisational information, but some lay information sheets on-line.

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OTHER NUTRITION ORGANISATIONS: NORTH AMERICA

The Allen Foundation Inc.: Michigan based foundation supporting research and education in healthy nutrition, particularly for children. Organisational information plus annual reports available on-line.
American Academy of Nutrition: This institution offers more alternative-oriented nutrition courses. Their web page contains information on their courses and health food stores.
The American College for Advancement in Medicine.: "A non-profit alternative medicine society dedicated to educating physicians on the latest findings and emerging procedures in preventive/nutritional medicine." This site contains material from their journal .
American College of Nutrition: Very brief amount of organisational information
American Council on Science and Health: Non-profit body aimed at interpreting scientific research for lay understanding. According to the web site it works on "consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. " The site has articles and press releases on a range of nutrition related topics, as well as other public health issues.
The American Diabetes Association: Lay nutrition resources.
American Dietetic Association: Lots of material about the ADA itself, its legislative lobbying program, special interest groups, meetings etc. Some of its lay-oriented nutrition information and ADA press releases, plus lists of affiliated organisations and a few links to other nutrition sites.
American Heart Association: Lots of lay information, including nutrition resources, heart disease risk calculator, exercise advice.
American Society for Nutritional Science: Was called American Institute of Nutrition. Research oriented nutrition science organisation. Information on the Institute, its meetings and publications, including access to their Nutrition Notes newsletter. Also see http://www.edoc.com/nutrition/">mirror site.
American Medical Students Association Task Force on Nutrition and Preventive Medicine: American Medical Students Association: information on the activities of this task force, which has conducted work on nutrition in schools, on medical school nutrition curriculum and other preventive projects. Has email address of current AMSA coordinators.
The American Society for Clinical Nutrition: Organisational information, ASCN meetings and press releases, Am.J.Clin.Nutrition. Promises that will soon have position papers and post-graduate courses.
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition: Information on the Society and its programs, membership etc. Later on they plan to have newsgroups, news etc.
Infant Feeding Action Coalition (Canada): Pro-breast feeding organisation. The site contains lay-oriented resources, links and some more `political' elements (formula company boycott etc).
Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research: "Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research was established in 1991 to support and challenge dietitians to include research in their everyday practice." Brief statement of purpose and research focus on this web page which is part of the Dietitians of Canada web site.

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OTHER NUTRITION ORGANISATIONS: EUROPE AND OTHER

British Nutrition Foundation: As this page is only put up as part of a listing of exhibits at an English Education Exhibition it is not clear how long the page will be up, but whilst it lasts there is some brief information on the Foundation nevertheless.
Center for Nutrition and Toxicology, Stockholm: Part of Karolinska Institute, "performs research on nutrition and toxicology using molecular biology techniques....also provides education on preventive nutrition, nutritional toxicology and molecular biology" Web site has staff and organisational information, bibliography of research papers, some web links etc.
Hungernet (Brown University), Oxfam: A gopher with information on Oxfam, HungerNet, list of publications. No search engine.
Irish nutrition & dietetic institute: At present their newsletter appears here.
PostGraduate Nutrition Dietetic Ctre (UK): Information page only describing the Centre as providing: "postgraduate training and research opportunities for dieticians, general practitioners, practice nurses, health visitors and other primary health care workers".
Rowett Research Institute (UK): "Integrated Research in Basic Biological Sciences relating to Nutrition." Institutional information.
Society for the Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism - (UK): Organisational information, newsletter, notice of meetings.
TNO Nutrition & Food Research (Holland)

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