National Task Force on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effect

In 1999, Congress directed the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to convene the National Task Force on FAS and FAE (the Task Force). CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention Team, coordinates the Task Force and manages its operation.

Since the Task Force was chartered in 2000, Task Force members, with input from multiple partners, have convened to deliberate and determine the Task Force mission, goals, and priority concerns to be addressed.

This report describes the structure, function, mission, and goals of the Task Force and provides their first recommendations. An explanation of how the Task Force recommendations were generated and the Task Force's next steps are also reported.

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5114a2.htm

Publication Year: 2002

Publisher

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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