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  1. The conference was the world congress of Public Health Nutrition (2014), and the quote comes from Jean Mayer, a French-American public health scientist employed by Harvard and Tufts.

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    Emilia Sanabria

  2. Department of Anthropology, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, PO Box 15718, 1001 NE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Emily Yates-Doerr

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Sanabria, E., Yates-Doerr, E. Alimentary uncertainties: From contested evidence to policy. BioSocieties 10, 117–124 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1057/biosoc.2015.17

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