Our
search engine quickly and easily puts
information at your fingertips. The engine
allows you to choose just how broad, or narrow,
you would like your search to be. The search
incorporates relevant content from all pages into your results.
Basic Search
Enter your keywords and phrases in the Search
text box. Press the "Go" button to process.
Special Query Terms:
Include Query Term - Place a "+" sign before
an essential word to include it within all
search results (eg: animal +health).
Exclude Query Term - Place a "-" sign before
a term that you want to exclude from the search
results (eg: imports -dairy).
Phrase Search - Search for complete phrases
by enclosing them in quotation marks or
connecting them with hyphens (eg: "food guide
pyramid").
Boolean OR Search - Use an uppercase OR
between terms to retrieve information that
contains either word A or word B (eg: food OR
nutrition).
Title Search - Place "intitle:" in front of
a query term to restrict results to documents
containing that word in the title (eg:
intitle:USDA).
Title Search (all) - Initiate search terms
by "allintitle:" to restrict results to those
with all of the query words in the title (eg:
allintitle: food safety).
URL Search (term) - Place "inurl:" before a
query term to restrict the results to documents
containing that word in the result URL (eg:
inurl:USDA).
URL Search (all) - Initiate search terms by
"allinurl:" to restrict the results to those
with all of the query words in the result URL
(eg: allinurl: USDA gov).
Advanced
Search
The Advanced Search offers the same
functionality as the Basic Search, but it also
provides additional options for reducing the
total number of search results.
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