Nutritional risk analysis addresses the essential nutrients and other substances with nutritional and physiological effects and the risk to health from their inadequate and/or excessive intake. The paper reviews the principles of risk management in order to underpin regulatory developments around the world to establish maximum amounts of vitamins and minerals and other substances in fortified foods and food supplements. The proposed science-based risk management models for public health decision-making take into account international risk assessments and (1) the tolerable upper intake levels (ULs) for vitamins and minerals, (2) the highest observed intakes (HOIs) for bioactive substances for which no adverse effects have been identified, and (3) the contributions to total intake from conventional foods, fortified foods and food supplements. The models propose the allocation of nutrient substances into three categories of risk and maximum levels in order to protect consumers, both adults and children, from excessive intakes.

Systematic and structural risk analysis approaches for establishing maximum levels of essential nutrients and other bioactive substances in fortified foods and food supplements

246th National Meeting (2013)

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