Background: Anthropogenic activities such as excessive oil exploration, automobile emissions with agricultural activities, etc tend to elevate the concentrations of heavy metals in the soil. These metals are accumulated by plant roots, thereby resulting to heavy metal contaminati...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230053
Aims: Malnutrition among all ages is still a persistent problem in India, especially in areas where the poor largely depend on rice and wheat staples with limited access to diverse diets using underutilized foods. This study was conducted to nutritionally enhance traditional foo...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230051
Agriculture is the mainstay of most of people globally. Despite the fact that agriculture has been a traditionally food and nutrition source, people go to bed without food and suffer from malnutrition even within the same households. Similarly, hunger and hidden hunger remains a...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230050
Margaretha Haugen, Livar Frøyland, Sigrun Henjum, Martinus Løvik, Tonje Holte Stea, Tor A. Strand, Christine Louise Parr & Kristin Holvik·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø, VKM) has, at the request of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet; NFSA), evaluated the intake of manganese from the diet and 1, 5 or 10 mg manganese per day in food suppl...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230042
Tor A. Strand, Livar Frøyland, Margaretha Haugen, Sigrun Henjum, Martinus Løvik, Tonje Holte Stea, Christine Louise Parr & Kristin Holvik·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø, VKM) has, at the request of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet; NFSA), evaluated the intake of molybdenum. VKM has also conducted scenario calculations to illustrate th...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230043
Kristin Holvik, Livar Frøyland, Margaretha Haugen, Sigrun Henjum, Martinus Løvik, Tonje Holte Stea, Tor A. Strand & Christine Louise Parr·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (Vitenskapskomiteen for mat og miljø, VKM) has, at the request of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet; NFSA), evaluated the intake of vitamin K in the diet. VKM has also assessed the consequences of establis...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230044
Christine Bjørge, Marit Låg, Ragna Bogen Hetland, Agnethe Christiansen, Lise Skrettberg, Åshild K. Andreassen, Augustine Arukwe, Knut Egil Bøe, Aksel Bernhoft, Ole Martin Eklo, Merete Grung, Margaretha Haugen, Gro Ingrunn Hemre, Ingeborg Klingen, Torsten Källqvist, Åshild Krogdahl, Jørgen F. Lassen, Bjørn Næss, Erik Ropstad, Janneche Utne Skåre, Inger-Lise Steffensen, Leif Sundheim, Line Emilie Sverdrup, Ole Torrissen & Jan Aelxander·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The present report is based on data from the 2010 EFSA Report on pesticide residues in food, the Norwegian monitoring programmes 2007-2012 and data from peer reviewed literature and governmental agencies. It is a challenge to perform quantitative estimates and comparative studies...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230045
In 2012, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) suggested a tolerable upper intake level (UL) for vitamin D at 100 µg/day for adults based on the risk of hypercalcaemia. EFSA concluded that consumption of up to 50 µg/day does not lead to hypercalcaemia in children and adolesce...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230046
Helle Katrine Knutsen, Anne Lise Brantsæter, Christiane K. Fæste, Anders Ruus, Cathrine Thomsen, Jannceche Utne Skåre, Heidi Amlund, Augustine Arukwe & Gunnar S. Eriksen·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The Norwegian Food Safety Authority requested the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (VKM) to assess the risk of lead exposure to the Norwegian population by consumption of cervid meat, including any subpopulations with an increased risk. Further, VKM was asked to des...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230047
Siamak Yazdankhah, Danica Grahek-Ogden, Karl Eckner, Georg Kapperud, Jørgen Lassen, Judith Narvhus, Truls Nesbakken, Lucy Robertson, Jan Thomas Rosnes, Olaug Taran Skjerdal, Eystein Skjerve, Line Vold & Yngvild Wasteson·European Journal of Nutrition & Food Safety·2019
The Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety (Vitenskapskomiteen for mattrygghet, VKM) has, at the request of the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet; NFSA), assessed the risk of "other substances" in food supplements sold in Norway. These risk assessments will pro...
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Research Article10.9734/ejnfs/2019/v9i230048