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Humanitarian daily rations (HDRs) are food rations intended for humanitarian crises.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=TECHNICAL DATA FOR HUMANITARIAN DAILY RATION )〕〔 〕 Each is intended to serve as a single person's full daily food supply, and contain somewhat over 2,200 calories. They have shelf-lives of about 3 years, and their contents are designed to be acceptable to a variety of religious and ethnic groups. The rations were first used in Bosnia in 1993.〔 〕 The meals are designed to be able to survive being air-dropped, without a parachute.〔. (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Humanitarian Daily Rations )〕 This is safer for refugees than parachuting large pallets of rations, as well as preventing meal hoarding by those able to seize a single, large delivery. The meals cost approximately one-fifth of the cost of a meal ready to eat.〔 HDRs are also made available through organizations such as The Salvation Army to aid victims of poverty in the United States, and were distributed during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita to victims of the disasters by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). ==Packaging and distribution== The HDR packages are delivered in cases of packages, each containing a small selection of food items based on predetermined menus and an accessory pack containing red pepper, pepper, salt, sugar, spoon, matches, an alcohol-free moist towelette, and a napkin.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Humanitarian Daily Rations (HDRs) ) (mirror ) 〕〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 title=Operational Rations )〕 HDRs are typically air-dropped into the disaster area on large pallets. The HDRs initially dropped in Afghanistan were yellow before it was realized that the packages were the same color as the bomblets in American cluster bombs, which were also dropped in Afghanistan.〔〔 〕 Later packages were covered in salmon colored foil.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.billdugan.com/projects/hdr/ ) (mirror ) 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Humanitarian daily ration」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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