Exhibit 543

Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Exhibit 543 · Advisory committee report

Scientific Report of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol

DGAC (chair Barbara Millen) drops the 300 mg/day cholesterol limit, keeps a goal of less than 10 percent of calories from saturated fat (p. 6), and states that a diet higher in plant-based foods and lower in animal-based foods 'is more health promoting and is associated with less environmental impact than is the current U.S. diet' (p. 5).

Source: 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Date: February 2015
Quoted from: p. 58
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://odphp.health.gov/sites/default/files/2019-09/Scientific-Report-of-the-2015-Dietary-Guidelines-Advisory-Committee.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-4.4: Primary record In 2015 the House Appropriations Committee wrote that the advisory committee's report "included extraneous factors and policy recommendations that are outside of the statutory requirement, such as agriculture production practices including sustainability, taxes, food labeling and marketing policies." Public Law 114-113 section 734 then barred release of the 2015-2020 guidelines unless each guideline "is based on significant scientific agreement" and "is limited in scope to nutritional and dietary information." On 6 October 2015 Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell announced that sustainability would not be in the guidelines "because this is a matter of scope."
Finding AGR-4.5: Primary record The 2015 advisory committee recommended dropping the 300 mg per day dietary cholesterol limit, and the 2015-2020 guidelines dropped it. Both kept a ceiling of 10 percent of calories from saturated fat.