The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

International body

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-2.9: The 2003 WHO/FAO report on diet and chronic disease set a population goal of under 10 percent of energy from free sugars and described that goal as controversial. In March and April 2003, according to AP, CSPI and the Guardian, the Sugar Association's president wrote to WHO that the association would ask Congress to challenge U.S. funding, a food-industry coalition asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to intervene on 20 March, and Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and John Breaux (D-LA) made a further request to Thompson on 28 March. AP also reports that the senators wrote Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 592 2003. World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (WHO Technical Report Series 916)