Development and application of a 2-step methodology to select a reference society providing Dietary Reference Values for national implementation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe and discuss a 2-step methodology developed to select a reference society that provides Dietary Reference Values (DRV) for national implementation and to illustrate its application in Switzerland with one macronutrient and one micronutrient.

Design

During Step 1, we searched and compared DRV and methodologies used to define DRV from eight European societies for seven selected nutrients. We repeated this procedure during Step 2 for DRV from two preselected societies for forty-four nutrients.

Setting

The 2-step methodology applied here for Switzerland may be used in other countries.

Participants

The research team commissioned six external experts from three linguistic regions of Switzerland, who provided their opinions through two online surv

SUBMITTER: Jotterand Chaparro C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10830378 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature