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==Advocates==
Since 1974, the [[United Nations]] has strongly supported Spirulina as "as the best food for the future"<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iimsam.org/images/SPIRULINAANDTHEMDGsRevisedDEC2010.pdf | title=What the United Nations says about Spirulina | publisher=Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition | work=Spirulina and the Millenium Development Goals | date=December 2010 | accessdate=2 July 2014}}</ref>, and established the Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition in 2003.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iimsam.org/images/IIMSAM-CHARTER.pdf | title=Charter | publisher=Intergovernmental Institution for the use of Micro-algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition | date=5 March 2003 | accessdate=2 July 2014}}</ref>
 
 
In the late 1980s and early 90s, both [[NASA]] ([[Controlled Ecological Life Support System|CELSS]])<ref>[http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890016190_1989016190.pdf Characterization of Spirulina biomass for CELSS diet potential.'' Normal, Al.: Alabama A&M University, 1988.]</ref> and the [[European Space Agency]] ([[MELISSA]])<ref>Cornet J.F., Dubertret G. "The cyanobacterium Spirulina in the photosynthetic compartment of the MELISSA artificial ecosystem." Workshop on artificial ecological systems, DARA-CNES, Marseille, France, October 24–26, 1990</ref> proposed Spirulina as one of the primary foods to be cultivated during long-term space missions.