The purpose of the Food Additives Intake Model (FAIM) template is to provide a screening tool for estimating chronic exposure to food additives. It allows the user to estimate the mean and high level exposure to food additives for different population groups throughout several European countries. According to the ‘Guidance for submission for food additive evaluations’, published on July 2012 on...

Introduction Choline is a water-soluble micronutrient vital to cell membrane integrity, support of methyl group metabolism, and nervous system activity.1 It is present as free choline in small quantities in a wide variety of foods and frequently found in its esterified forms.2 Choline can also be found in fortified foods and dietary supplements; e.g., choline is a required additive in many infa...

Tetronasin (formerly ICI139603) [l] is a polyether polyketide antibiotic produced during the aerobic growth of the Gram-positive soil organism Streptomyces longisporofluvus. It has been used c o m i a l l y as a cattle food additive where it has been found to improve food utilisation [2] and to combat the onset of acid lactosis [3]. It may well also prove to be commercially viable as an anticwi...

We show that only two simple trade-off judgments are sufficient to determine whether the multiplicative multiattribute model assumes its additive form, regardless of the number of attributes in the model. This additivity condition offers a useful alternative to the test based on multiattribute lotteries commonly presented in textbooks. It J. Multi-Crit. Deck Anal. 6: 248-252 (1997) No. of Figur...

Research on food decision making is often based on the assumption that people take many different aspects into account and weight and add them according to their personally assessed importance. Yet there is a growing body of research suggesting that people's decisions can often be better described by simple heuristics-rules of thumb that people use to make choices based on only a few important ...

The behaviour literature is full of studies showing that animals in every taxon balance the probability of acquiring food with the risk of being preyed upon. While interactions between food and predators clearly operate at an individual scale, population-scale studies have tended to focus on only one factor at a time. Consequently, interactive (or 'synergistic') effects of food and predators on...

There is no confusion regarding the safety of carrageenan. Carrageenan is a safe and natural fiber extracted from seaweed [1]. It is an indigestible polysaccharide that is commonly used in foods as a natural thickening, gelling, and stabilizing agent. It is used as a gelling agent in our vegetarian softgels and On Guard Toothpaste. Carrageenan-containing softgel capsules are the only stable veg...

The contribution of genetic factors to individual differences in food use was estimated in a large population-based twin cohort of young adults (22- to 27-year-old). Male and female twins (n=2009 complete twin pairs) evaluated use-frequencies of 24 food items using 5 categories (1=never-5=several times a day) in a postal questionnaire. Foods were categorized by factor analysis. Estimates of the...