Food and Nutrition

Nutritional Methodologies and Modeling

16 Nutritional Methodologies and Modeling: Dietary modeling serves as a valuable tool for assessing the intake of food chemicals from the diet. Over the years, regulatory bodies worldwide have utilized dietary modeling techniques to evaluate if dietary exposure to specific food contaminants presents a potential risk to public health and safety. Integral to the Assessment of Total Diet Study (ATDS), dietary modeling transforms analytical findings on particular foods into estimates of dietary exposure, which are then compared against established health benchmarks. This comparative analysis is critical for determining whether projected dietary exposure to food chemicals poses any unacceptable health risks to specific population groups. While dietary modeling represents a scientific approach to quantify nutrient intake at individual or community levels, the accuracy of these estimates hinges upon the quality of data integrated into the models.

Key Themes:

• Dietary Assessment
• Methodological Studies
• Application of Mathematical Models