The Guidelines are widely used by government agencies, for all federal dietary guidance, and food assistance programmes (Toole and Kuchler, 2015), as well as by consumers and diet-related industries (USDA, 2015). The ICHRN also put in place the HNRIM system to record and track all nutrition research projects performed or funded by the Federal Government. Advancing bioenergy technologies has been an important objective for both the USDA and the DOE.