Provided are over 500 citations with abstracts of food-related documents released by the General Accounting Office, Office of Technology Assessment, Congressional Budget Office, Congressional Reserch Service, and Congressional Committees from July 1973 through September 1977. Topics are: domestic feeding programs; food safety and quality; nutrition education; nutrition surveillance; farm structure; food production-resources; farm marketing and distribution; price supports, set asides, marketing orders, target prices; food aid and development assistance; trade policies and promotion; population control; internal organization and policies; food policy determination; procurement and specifications; and financial auditing. Appended are abstracts of congressional documents on food, federal information sources and systems on food, recurring reports to the Congress on food, federal program evaluations on food, and major food legislation. Subject. agency/organization, and congressional indexes are included.

Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies.

Abstract: Major issues and major goals of a national food policy are outlined and described. Sixteen critical food and agricultural issues are tied into four food system goals: 1) assuring safe, nutritious food for all segments of the population; 2) assuring that the economic strength of the food system is maintained; 3) fulfilling the Nation's commitment to help meet world food demand through humanitarian measures and commercial export; and 4) developing and coordinating national and international food policies. The issues and goals are used by the U.S. General Accounting Office to organize its own activities. Appended are lists of Congressional committees, federal agencies, federal commissions, federal offices, federal departments, and organizations related to food.