Science Debate 2012: Food
The leading U.S. science and engineering organizations developed a list of 14 science policy questions facing the U.S. in 2012. You can read these questions–and the Presidential candidates’ answers–at ScienceDebate.org. For each of the Science Debate 2012 questions, we’re going to provide you a selection of the authoritative and unbiased resources of the National Academies to [...]
Four New Science Books: Food Safety, Energy Efficiency, and more…
Last week brought us four new reports to the NAP site, including our featured publication in the Food and nutrition topic, Enhancing Food Safety, covering an important topic with a snappy book cover. Featured Publication Enhancing Food Safety: The Role of the Food and Drug Administration (prepublication) Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts [...]
This Week’s New Publications (10/5-10/9)
Every Friday, we run down the publications that hit nap.edu in the past week. Every publication is available to read for free online, so follow the links to read them on our site. Featured Publication Approaches to Reducing the Use of Forced or Child Labor: Summary of a Workshop on Assessing Practice (final) Globally, child [...]

