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Working Group: G Clugston,¹ KG Dewey,² C Fjeld,³ J Millward,⁴ P Reeds,⁵ NS Scrimshaw,⁶ K Tontisirin,⁷ JC Waterlow⁸ and VR Young⁹

¹Nutrition Unit, WHO, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland; ²Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis, CA 95616-8669, USA; ³Section of Nutritional and Health-Related Environmental Studies, International Atomic Energy Agency, P.O. Box 100,1400 Vienna, Austria; ⁴Nutritional Science Research Center, School of Biological Sciences, University of Surrey Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH UK; ⁵Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, 1100 Bates Street Houston, TX 77030, USA; ⁶UNU Food and Nutrition Program, Charles Street Station, P.O. Box 500, Boston, MA 02114-0500 USA; ⁷Institute of Nutrition, Mahidol University, Salaya, Nakhon Pathom 73170, Thailand; ⁸Centre for Human Nutrition, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 2 Taviton Street, London WC1H OBT, UK; ⁹Laboratory of Human Nutrition, School of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02142-1308. USA

Descriptors: protein requirements, amino acid requirements