[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 83 (Tuesday, April 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25276-25277]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-10054]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES


Announcement of Opportunity and Procedure To Submit Nominations 
for Nutrients of Interest for Dietary Reference Intake Reviews

AGENCY: Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the 
Secretary, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office of 
Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.

    Authority:  42 U.S.C. 300u(a).


ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) Subcommittee, an entity 
within the federal Interagency Committee on Human Nutrition Research, 
has developed procedures jointly with its Canadian counterpart to allow 
interested parties to nominate nutrients for consideration for DRI 
review. This notice will serve to announce the opportunity to submit 
such information to the DRI Subcommittee as it considers updates for 
nutrients and food components that have previously been considered by 
Institute of Medicine DRI committees.

DATES: The DRI Subcommittee will accept nominations for consideration 
beginning April 29, 2013 through 11:59 p.m. EDT on July 31, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Nominations may be submitted by email in the required format 
and to the email addresses specified in the Dietary Reference Intakes 
page on the Web site: www.health.gov/DRI.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Yvonne Chow, Division of Nutrition 
Research Coordination, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and 
Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health; Room 624A, 6707 
Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD 20817; Telephone: (301) 594-8821; Email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DRI Subcommittee, in collaboration with 
its Canadian counterpart, has been responsible for prioritizing 
nutrients for federally-funded DRI reviews that establish nutrient 
reference values. Given the completion in 2011 of the most recent DRI 
review which was conducted by the Institute of Medicine at the National 
Academy of Sciences, the DRI Subcommittee is now considering future 
reviews. The increasingly broad range of uses of the DRIs warrants 
input to the DRI Subcommittee concerning nutrients of interest for such 
reviews. Input from all interested parties is welcome and may come from 
individuals and organizations external to the federal government as 
well as from federal agencies.
    The opportunity to provide information is limited at this time to 
new reviews for nutrients and food components that have previously been 
considered by Institute of Medicine DRI committees. The nomination is 
to include a cover letter and a literature search. The requirements of 
the nomination package and the nomination procedures are specified in 
the Web site identified above in the ADDRESSES section, and interested 
persons should access the Web site to obtain specific instructions for 
the nomination. The nomination will be regarded as information for the 
DRI Subcommittee and is intended to assist only in informing planning 
activities; the submission of a nomination does not guarantee the 
initiation of a DRI review. Further, the opportunity to provide 
information should not be construed as a funding opportunity or grant 
program. Please note that proprietary or confidential information 
cannot be considered and should not be submitted.

    Dated: April 24, 2013.
Howard K. Koh,
Assistant Secretary for Health.
[FR Doc. 2013-10054 Filed 4-29-13; 8:45 am]
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