Workshop Summary
Journal Article 2012
The hope was expressed that researchers could begin to learn why individuals choose to use low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) or products containing them, because few data are presently available on this topic.
Workshop on Biological and Chemical Agents of Bioterrorism in Food - Proceedings 2001
Report/White Paper 2001
This report includes details on the Workshop on Biological and Chemical Agents of Terrorism in Food organized by the ILSI North America technical committees on Food Microbiology and Food Toxicology and Safety Assessment of Food.
Understanding Tolerable Upper Level Intakes
Journal Article 2006
The supplement, published in the Journal of Nutrition (2006;136 Suppl 1:487S-521S), includes articles describing the science behind the philosophy and methods for deriving upper tolerable intake levels (ULs), how public health can best be served by the use of upper levels, and research needs for advancing the science that is used to establish the upper level.
Translating the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to Bring About Real Behavior Change
Journal Article 2011
This article, published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, is the second of two papers resulting from two expert dialogues held in the fall of 2010 among nutrition scientists and food scientists charged with innovating strategies to bring Americans’ diets more closely in line with the 2010 report from the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.
Trans Fatty Acid Intakes and Food Sources in the U.S. Population: NHANES 1999–2002
Journal Article 2012
Because of efforts to decrease trans fatty acids in the food supply, intake should be assessed in the population to establish a baseline TFA intake.
Towards Establishing Dietary Reference Intakes for Eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and Docosahexaenoic Acids (DHA)
Journal Article 2009
This paper, published in the Journal of Nutrition (2009;139:804S–819S), summarizes a workshop sponsored by the Dietary Lipids Committee that presented the current scientific understanding of the impact of dietary EPA and DHA on cardiovascular, neurocognitive, and cancer outcomes.
Threshold Dose for Peanut: Risk Characterization Based Upon Diagnostic Oral Challenge of a Series of 286 Peanut-Allergic Individuals
Journal Article 2010
Clinical records of 286 consecutive patients reacting positively with objective symptoms to double-blind, placebo-controlled oral peanut challenges at University Hospital, Nancy, France were examined for individual no observed adverse effect levels (NOAELs) and lowest observed adverse effect levels (LOAELs). This study was published in Food and Chemical Toxicology (2010;48:814–819).
The Use of Low-Calorie Sweeteners by Children: Implications for Weight Management
Book 2012
The rise in pediatric obesity since the 1970s has been well established in the United States and is becoming a major concern worldwide. As a potential means to help slow the obesity epidemic, low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) have gained attention as dietary tools to assist in adherence to weight loss plans or prevention of excess weight gain.
The Use of Low-Calorie Sweeteners by Adults: Impact on Weight Management
Journal Article 2012
The aim of this review is to gain clarity on the role of LCS in weight management and their impact on diet quality. In addition, because the majority of studies aimed at identifying associations between low-calorie sweeteners (LCS) and these outcomes are based on observational data, the pitfalls in designing and evaluating data from observational studies are also discussed.
The Tricks Learnt by Human Enteric Pathogens From Phytopathogens to Persist within the Plant Environment.
Journal Article 2010
Through recent advances in our understanding of microbial/plant interactions it is becoming apparent that human pathogens, principally, Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella are adapted to survive in the plant environment. The aforementioned pathogens have surface epitopes that can bind to plant structures such as stomata to aid attachment. This work was published in Current Opinions in Biotechnology (2010;21:131–136).