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The Total Diet Study (TDS) is an important part of the United Kingdom (UK) Government surveillance programme for chemicals in food and has been carried out on a continuous basis since 1966. Results from the UK TDS are used, together with food consumption data from various surveys, including the UK National Dietary and Nutrition Survey, to estimate dietary exposures of the general UK population to ubiquitous chemicals and certain radionuclides in the general diet. TDSs continue to make an important contribution to the UK Food Standard Agency’s national and international regulatory commitments for the risk analysis of food chemical contaminants.
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Shavila, J. (2013). Total Diet Studies—United Kingdom’s Experience. In: Moy, G., Vannoort, R. (eds) Total Diet Studies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7689-5_40
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