National Adult Dietary Survey

These are estimates of dietary exposure to inorganic contaminants for individuals who eat average amounts of food (i.e. mean consumers) and those who eat more than average (i.e. upper range (97.5th percentile) consumers) and are based on consumption data from the UK National Adult Dietary Survey (NADS).4 They are calculated using the mean upper bound concentrations of specific contaminants in each food group and the consumption data from the NADS. Consumer exposure estimates are less suitable for following trends in exposure than population estimates as they are based on consumption data from the NADS which was carried out only once in 1986 and 1987 and is not updated... 

In the UK, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food and the Department of Health have conducted four sets of food consumption surveys between 1983 and 1997. These surveys make up the UK s National Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS) program. The UK has conducted surveys for infants [15], schoolchildren [16], adults [17], and most recently, yoimg people [18]. The food consumption information from these surveys is used for the various UK dietary exposure models, including the TMDI and the NESTI calculations. Elsewhere in the EU, dietary risk assessments may be based upon national food consultation surveys, such as the German data [20], or upon the regional diets... 

Lang R, Thane CW, Bolton-Smith C, and Jebb SA (2003) Whole-grain food consumption by British adults from two national dietary surveys. Public Health Nutrition 6 479-484. 

According to the FDA Total Diet Study, in which dietary sodium and potassium intakes of three age groups of Americans were estimated from 1977 through 1980, cow s milk supplied 32 to 39% of the total sodium intake for infants, whereas the percentage for toddlers was much lower, 12 to 14% (Shank et al. 1982). Dairy products contributed about 10% of the sodium in the total diet consumed by adults. Data obtained from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES II) 1976-1980 (Carroll et al. 1983) reveal that the median daily consumption of sodium found naturally in food and added during... 

National diet and nutrition surveys. Study No. 2836 Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults, 1986-1987. Dietary and Nutritional Survey of British Adults. UK Data Archive. 

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