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Food additive and pesticide safety

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2013

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In a nutshell

The assessment of food additive and pesticide residue safety involves extrapolating data to calculate a dose-response curve of adverse health effects and estimating lifetime exposure.

These steps all involve risk estimates and assumptions, and usually rely heavily on animal data. Clinicians can provide the best advice to their human patients if they understand what lies behind the concept of “reasonable certainty” of safety.

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Brief Report
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Arbor Clinical Nutrition Updates , Volume 244 , March 2006 , pp. 1 - 3
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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