FDA Health and Diet Survey - 2004 Supplement

The Health and Diet Survey (HDS) is a periodic telephone survey conducted by FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition to measure and monitor public awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and reported behavior related to food and nutrition. Topics in previous surveys have included food labels, fats, and dietary supplements. Data have been used to meet FDA's information needs on these topics and to evaluate national programs such as the National Cholesterol Education Program.

The HDS - 2004 Supplement, the 9^th survey since 1982, was conducted between October 2004 and January 2005, to provide FDA with information about: (1) consumers' knowledge of relationships between dietary fats and the risk of coronary heart disease; and (2) consumers' attitudes toward diet, health, and physical activity, particularly perceptions and practices related to carbohydrates.

A Topline Frequency Report of the full survey, as well as selected and more detailed findings on dietary fats, heart disease relationships, and carbohydrates are online: FDA Health and Diet Survey - 2004 Supplement.

For further information, contact Chung-Tung Jordan Lin by email to or by phone at 301-436-1831.

Trans Fat Food Labeling

FDA has announced that a collection of information entitled "Guidance for Requesting an Extension to Use Existing Label Stock after the Trans Fat Labeling Effective Date of January 1, 2006" has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (the PRA). The complete Federal Register notice is online: 70 FR 70623. Elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register, FDA published a notice announcing an opportunity for public comment on this collection of information. Since this collection received emergency approval that expires on January 1, 2006, FDA is following the normal PRA clearance procedures by issuing that notice. The embedded notice is online: 70 FR 70621. For additional information, contact Peggy Robbins, Office of Management Programs (HFA-250), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-1223.

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