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SCN News

Editor: Judith Pojda, PhD

Illustrations by Robert Lavin

SCN NEWS issued in July and December each year by the Secretariat of the UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition. Your contributions to future issues would be most welcome. SCN NEWS aims to help the sharing of experience in nutrition. If you wish to receive additional copies of SCN NEWS, or would like to suggest other names to be added to our distribution list, please write to us or visit our website at: http://www.unsystem.org/accscn/

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SCN NEWS provides information on issues of importance in the field of international nutrition. All manuscripts submitted for consideration are peer-reviewed, although publication is not guaranteed. Overall editorial control is retained by the SCN Secretariat. Every effort is made to ascertain the validity of the information contained in SCN publications. Contributing authors are responsible for the accuracy of references. Manuscript guidelines are available. Items published by the SCN Secretariat do not imply endorsement of views given, nor necessarily the official positions taken by the SCN and its member agencies. The status of quotes and other material is generally indicated in the text and/or sources.

© UN ACC Sub-Committee on Nutrition, 1999

Readers are encouraged to review, abstract, reproduce or translate this document in part or in whole, but as copyright holder, the UN ACC/SCN Secretariat requests due acknowledgement. Use other than for education or non-commercial purposes requires explicit prior authorization in writing from the ACC/SCN Secretariat. Original illustrations are the sole property of ACC/SCN.


We gratefully acknowledge funding assistance from the government of the Netherlands and USAID for the preparation and printing of this issue of SCN NEWS.


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