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Abstract: This hearing receives and reviews a report by the General Accounting Office on the National WIC Evaluation. This WIC evaluation discusses the circumstances surrounding a delayed, over budget WIC evaluation and some of the editing processes that resulted in sections of the report being deleted.

Abstract: A major congressional report presents the full testimony of a 1987 hearing before the US Senate on the scope, accomplishments, costs, and importance of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The report includes the statements of 3 Senators and testimony by 8 witnesses. The witnesses included USDA leaders, state (Iowa, Missouri, Oregon) and national WIC leaders, and the executive director of Bread for the World. Additional material provided by a regional USDA Food and Nutrition Service office and by the US General Accounting Office also is included.

This document records the oral and written testimony given at a Congressional hearing on nutrition research and education as carried out by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Witnesses included officials from the Department, professors and administrators from various university nutrition programs, and medical doctors. Testimony stressed the expanding role that nutrition is playing and should play in the improvement of the health of Americans. More nutrition research was advocated, as well as more use of such research on the local level, such as through the Cooperative Extension Service and training for local medical practitioners. Increasing nutrition knowledge and action by the public could substantially lower health care costs, and testimony supported Department of Agriculture programs such as Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) that aim to prevent low birth weight babies. (KC)