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acceptable daily intake the amount of a drug or chemical residue to which an animal can be exposed daily for a lifetime without suffering a deleterious or injurious effect, on the basis of all of the facts known at the time. acceptable daily intake Nutrition An estimate of the amount of a food that a person can ingest daily over a lifetime humans without appreciable health risk, divided by an average person's lifespan. See Tolerable daily intake. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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This dosage is much less
than the acceptable daily intake for humans, with current limits set at
50 mg/kg in the United States and 40 mg/kg in Europe.
The acceptable daily intake set by the Food and Drug Administration is
50 milligrams per kilogram body weight (mg/kg) per day, the equivalent
of about 20 cans of diet soda. The results of this mega-experiment indicate that APM is a
multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg body
weight, much less than the current acceptable daily intake. |
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