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Acceptable daily intake

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Estimate of the amount of a substance in food or drinking water, expressed on a body mass basis (usually mg/kg body weight), which can be ingested daily over a lifetime by humans without appreciable health risk.

For calculation of the daily intake per person, a standard body mass of 60 kg is used.

The acceptable daily intake is normally used for food additives (tolerable daily intake is used for contaminants).

Abbreviated ADI

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