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Total Diet StudyUS Food and Drug Administration
Center for
Food
Safety and Applied Nutrition
200 C St. SW
Washington, DC
20204
Phone:
(202) 205-4850
| Conducted
annually since 1961
This study assesses the levels of nutritional elements and contaminants
such as
pesticide residues and industrial chemicals in the US food supply and in
the
representative diets of specific age-sex groups. Core foods in the food
supply
are analyzed for nutrients and contaminants four times each
year. |
Access Information |
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Related Reports | Pennington JA, Capar SG, Parfitt CH,
Edwards
CW. "History of the Food and Drug Administration's Total Diet Study (Part
II),
1987-1993." Journal of AOAC International, 1996 Jan-Feb,
79(1):163-70. |
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Related Reports | Yess NJ, Gunderson EL, Roy RR. "US Food
and
Drug Administration monitoring of pesticide residues in infant foods and
adult
foods eaten by infants/children." Journal of AOAC International, 1993
May-Jun,
76(3):492-507. |
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Reports | Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Reports.
Available on the World Wide Web:
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/pestadd.html |
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