Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) at Chemical Glossary

What is it? This is an estimate of the amount of a substance in food that can be ingested daily over a lifetime by humans without appreciable health risk. The concept of the ADI has been developed principally by WHO and FAO and is relevant to chemicals such as additi

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