AAP News Vol. 1 No. 7 July 1985, p. 1
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AAP argues for nutrition programs, seat belts

In testimony before congressional committees during the past two months, AAP spokesmen have argued for fortified nutrition programs aimed at women and children and called for mandatory seat belts on school buses.

Following the release of a congressional study showing that 22 of every 100 U.S. children live in poverty. Alvin Mauer, M.D., FAAP, testified on June 17 before the subcommittee on nutrition of the Senate Committee on Agriculture. Dr. Mauer, professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee and chairman of the AAP Committee on Nutrition, commended past federal support for nutrition programs, but stressed that "the Supplemental Feeding Program for Women. Infants and Children (WIC) must continue to grow."