The Use of Dietary Intake Data in Dietary Exposure Assessments Within Health Canada

'Food is recognized as an important pathway for biological, chemical and physical hazards to human health; thus, dietary intake data are required for a wide range of risk/safety assessment activities conducted throughout Health Canada. The Task Force on Scientific Risk Assessment’s Dietary Intake Project was initiated to summarize intradepartmental use of dietary intake data in exposure assessments and to provide suggestions for best practices'--Summary, p. 1.