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Recommended Dietapy Allowances Eood and Nutrition Board, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 1989. M. Brown, ed., Present Knowledge in Nutrition, 6th ed.. International Life Sciences Institute/Nutrition Eoundation, Washington, D.C., 1990. 

Guzelian PS, Henry CJ, Olin SS. 1992. Similarities and differences between children and adults Implications for risk assessment. Washington, DC International Life Sciences Institute Press. 

ILSl, A Framework for Estimating Pesticide Concentrations in Drinking Water for Aggregate Exposure Assessments, Workshop Report 5/19/99. International Life Sciences Institute, Washington, DC (1999). 

Dr. Day was a founding member of the Pesticide Handlers Exposure Database (PHED) Task Force, and was instrumental in the development of the database, which is now widely used in the field of pesticide worker exposure. In 1994, he was a key player in the formation of the Agricultural Worker Re-entry Task Force (ARTF) and the Outdoor Residential Exposure Task Force (ORETF), and he served as chairman of the ARTF Technical Committee from its inception in 1994 until his retirement from DowElanco. Dr. Day also served as his company s representative on the Residue Technical Committee of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) from 1989 to 1996. He continues to serve as a consultant to the agrochemical industry. 

Rodriguez-Amaya D. 2001. A Guide to Carotenoid Analysis in Foods. Washington, DC ILSI Press, International Life Science Institute. 

By definition, a nutraceutical (derived from the term nutritional pharmaceutical ) is a foodstuff (fortified food or dietary supplement) that is held to provide health or medical benefits in addition to its basic nutritional value [1], Nutraceuticals derived from botanicals deliver a concentrated form of presumed bioactive agents from plants that are not generally part of the food supply. The term nutraceutical has no regulatory definition. Similarly, functional foods, as defined by the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), are foods that by virtue of physiologically active food components, provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition [2], For the purposes of this review, these two terms will be differentiated by the form in which they are consumed. Nutraceuticals refers to dietary supplements most often found in pill or capsule form functional foods are ingested as part of a normal food pattern. Both are intended to provide beneficial effects beyond their nutritional value, and contribute to an improved state of health and/or reduction of risk of disease. 

ILSI, International Life Sciences Institute, Research Needs on Age-related Differences in Susceptibility to Chemical Toxicants. Report of an ILSI Risk Science Institute Working Group. Washington, DC ILSI Risk Science Institute, 1996. 

Of the activities listed in Table 20.1, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)... 

Because this hypothesis generated considerable anxiety and had broad pubhc health implications, the Nutrition Foundation (formerly affiliated with the International Life Sciences Institute but now defunct) convened a committee to evaluate the scientific evidence relative to the Feingold hypothesis, and if warranted, provide guidelines for further research. The committee, known as the National Advisory Committee on Hyperkinesis and Food Additives (1975), found no conclusive link between diet and behavior, but could not rule out a possible association since no studies appropriate for testing the hypothesis had been carried out. Based on the committee s recommendations, several doubleblind crossover studies were subsequently conducted, but these produced... 

INTERNATIONAL FOOD BIOTECHNOLOGY COUNCIL (IFBC) AND THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE SCIENCES INSTITUTE (ILSI) ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY INSTITUTE (Ail). 1996. Allergenicity of Foods Produced by Genetic Modification. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition S1-S181. 

Castle. L., de Kruijf, N., Franz, R., Gilbet, J. and Rossi, L., Recycling of plastics for food contact use, Guidelines prepared under the responsibility of the International Life Science Institute (ILSI) European Packaging Material Task Force, Washington, DC, 1998. 

PET itself is biologically inert if ingested and is dermally safe during handling. No adverse effects have been observed at exposures anticipated to occur from the use of PET packages (International Life Sciences Institute, 2000). It poses no hazard if inhaled and no evidence of toxicity has been detected in feeding studies using animals. 

SMLs have been established for the monomers commonly used in making PET (Table 14.2). Studies conducted using monomers and PET intermediates indicated that these materials are essentially non-toxic and pose no threats to human health. The chemistry of compounds that are used to manufacture PET shows no evidence of estrogenic activity (International Life Sciences Institute, 2000). 

International Life Sciences Institute (2000). Report on Packaging Materials 1. Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) for food packaging applications. ILSI Europe Packaging Material Task Force, Brussels. 

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The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) was founded in 1978 as a nonprofit, worldwide foundation that seeks to improve the well-being of the general public through the advancement of science (ILSI 2007a). 

ILSI. 2007b. International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) (publications) website. http /www.ilsi.org/ Publications/ BSfCHEM. 2007a. IPCS BSfCHEM Environmental Health Criteria Monographs (EHCs) website. http //www. inchem.org/pages / ehc.html... 

Since the first description of the BMD approach in health risk assessment of chemicals, the method has been modified and extended by many others. Central in this work was a workshop organized by the International Life Science Institute (ILSl) and reported in Barnes et al. (1995) and a workshop organized by the US-EPA Risk Assessment Eomm resulting in a US-EPA report (US-EPA 1995). No consensus was reached at these workshops on which variation and extension of the BMD approach is most appropriate for the use in human health risk assessment. 

Farmer P Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment ILSl/HESl research programme on alternative cancer models results of Syrian hamster embryo cell transformation assay. International Life Sciences Institute/Health and Environmental Science Institute. Toxicol Pathol 2002 30 536-8. 

Nielsen FH. 1990. Other trace elements. In Brown ML, ed. Present knowledge in nutrition, 6th edition, Washington DC International Life Sciences Institute Press, 294-307. 

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One of the early concerns about the application of DNA microarray to toxicology has been how to properly compare experiments that use a wide variety of commercial and proprietary platforms, protocols, and analyses methods. The Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI) of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) has... 

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