Dietary reference intakes : a risk assessment model for establishing upper intake levels for nutrients

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    • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Food and Nutrition Board

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Dietary reference intakes : a risk assessment model for establishing upper intake levels for nutrients

Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine

(The Compass series)

National Academy Press, 1998

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The model for risk assessment of nutrients used to develop tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) is one of the key elements of the developing framework for Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs). DRIs are dietary reference values for the intake of nutrients and food components by Americans and Canadians. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences recently released two reports in the series (IOM, 1997, 1998). The overall project is a comprehensive effort undertaken by the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI Committee) of the Food and Nutrition Board (FNB), Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in the United States, with active involvement of Health Canada. The DRI project is the result of significant discussion from 1991 to 1996 by the FNB regarding how to approach the growing concern that one set of quantitative estimates of recommended intakes, the Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs), was scientifically inappropriate to be used as the basis for many of the uses to which it had come to be applied.

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  • NCID
    BA43431609
  • ISBN
    • 0309063485
  • LCCN
    99212474
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Washington, D.C.
  • Pages/Volumes
    x, 71 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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