Nutritional Risk Assessment: Perspectives, Methods, and Data Challenges: Workshop Summary

by Ann Yaktine, Food Forum, Maria Oria, et al.

For more than two decades, the practice of risk assessment has been applied to human public health issues, and policy makers have used the results of risk assessments in their decision-making process. Approaches for risk assessment have been developed for nonnutrients such as drugs, food additives, and pesticides, but approaches for risk assessment have received less attention in the nutrition area. Some aspects of the risk assessment approach...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309108713
• ISBN13: 9780309108713
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 146 Pages