---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 3175c"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "3175c"
heading: "Program of food, nutrition, and consumer education by State cooperative extension services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/3175c"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching"
  - "Subchapter IV — National Food and Human Nutrition Research and Extension Program"
---

# §3175c. Program of food, nutrition, and consumer education by State cooperative extension services


The [cooperative extension services](/usc/7/3103.md?p=6) of the [States](/usc/7/3103.md?p=16) shall, with funds made available under this subtitle, carry out an expanded program of food, nutrition, and consumer [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) for low-income individuals in a manner designed to achieve the purpose set forth in [section 3175b of this title](/usc/7/3175b.md). In operating the program, the [cooperative extension services](/usc/7/3103.md?p=6) may use the expanded food and nutrition [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) program, and other food, nutrition, and consumer [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) activities of the [cooperative extension services](/usc/7/3103.md?p=6) or similar activities carried out by them in collaboration with other public or private nonprofit agencies or organizations. In carrying out their responsibilities under the program, the [cooperative extension services](/usc/7/3103.md?p=6) are encouraged to—

- (1) provide effective and meaningful food, nutrition, and consumer [education](/usc/7/3103.md?p=20) services to as many low-income individuals as possible;
- (2) [employ](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-10) educational methodologies, including innovative approaches, that accomplish the purpose set forth in [section 3175b of this title](/usc/7/3175b.md); and
- (3) to the extent practicable, coordinate activities carried out under the program with the delivery to low-income individuals of benefits under food assistance programs.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 99–198, title XV, § 1586, Dec. 23, 1985, 99 Stat. 1596.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This subtitle, referred to in text, is subtitle C (§§ 1581–1589) of title XV of Pub. L. 99–198 which is classified as follows: sections 1581 and 1582 are not classified to the Code; section 1583 is set out as a note under section 2011 of this title; sections 1584 through 1588 are classified, respectively, to sections 3175a to 3175e of this title; and section 1589 is classified to section 3178a of this title.

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Food Security Act of 1985, and not as part of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, and Teaching Policy Act of 1977 which comprises this chapter.