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... Experience with the application of a risk assessment process to the setting of upper levels of intake for essential nutrients, for example, has uncovered a number of challenges. Adapting and developing risk assessment strategies for application in nutrition science could lead to improved approaches to the development of dietary and nutritional recommendations and thus is a topic of considerable interest.
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... Buchanan, panels of experts provided an overview of risk assessment as it relates to nutrition; explored ways to share risk assessment approaches used by different groups; addressed challenges related to dietary patterns and health outcomes; identified new developments and challenges related to genetics, dietary intake assessment, and food composition data; and listed numerous data gaps. Twenty-two experts from many fields gave formal presentations, and members of the audience broadened perspectives and added information during open discussion periods.
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... Chapter 6 also summarizes the topics identified during the presentation and discussion as meriting more attention. Among these topics were the following: • expanding the application of risk assessment in the processes of setting Dietary Reference Intakes and of developing various nu trition guidelines, FIGURE O-1 Risk assessment model for nutrient toxicity.
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... Appendix D lists acronyms and abbreviations used throughout this workshop. The workshop was supported jointly by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, the Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium, the International Life Sciences Institute Research Foundation, and the Institute of Medicine's Food and Nutrition Board's Food Forum.
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