IDFA’s Cary Frye issues statement on scientists’ saturated-fat consensus statement
The scientists requested that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services consider lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake for the upcoming 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines.
In a consensus statement, a group of established U.S. and international nutrition scientists, including three former members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, requested the U.S. Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services give serious and immediate consideration to lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake for the upcoming 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA). Cary Frye, senior vice president of regulatory affairs for the Washington, D.C.-based International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA), issued the following statement:
“After intense scrutiny toward the most rigorous scientific data available on the health effects of saturated fats on heart disease and stroke, leading nutrition scientists have recommended lifting the limits placed on saturated fat intake in the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Such limits needlessly stand in the way of Americans consuming dairy foods at all fat levels, which are part of a nutritious diet. IDFA supports the group’s recommendation to lift limits of saturated fat intake in the Dietary Guidelines. As the group of scientists noted, ‘The most rigorous and current science fails to support a continuation of the government’s policy limiting consumption of saturated fats.’