Space flight feeding systems
Subtitle: Characteristics, concepts for improvement, and public health implications
By: Norman D. Heidelbaugh
Contributors: USAF School of Aerospace Medicine; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection
Series: Technical report, SAM-TR -- 66-277
Publisher: USAF School of Aerospace Medicine - Aerospace Medical Division (AFSC)
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Brooks Air Force Base, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Astronauts; Nutrition; Space flight; Food; Metabolism; Safety measures; Diet
Description: Space flight feeding systems are characterized by their strict compliance to stringent requirements imposed by the biological, engineering, and operational constraints of space flight. Many special techniques have been combined to develop present methods for production and quality assurance of reliable foods for space flight feeding systems.

New concepts being developed for improving space feeding systems can be expected to introduce additional changes of methods of food production. These concepts in space food technology have implications for future public health standards in a modernizing food industry.

The discipline of veterinary public health, along with other medical specialities engaged in food safety programs, will be required to furnish personnel with increasingly higher standards of training to cope with the increasing complexity of modern food technology.
Notes: "December 1966."

Includes bibliographical references.

Issued also as: Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association, Vol. 149, No. 12, pp. 1662-1671, (1966).