IAFNS is committed to sharing the results of the research we support, regardless of the outcomes. Our publications undergo stringent peer-review by qualified experts prior to publication and include disclosure of all sources of funding.
Using an Erythrocyte Fatty Acid Fingerprint to Predict Risk of All-Cause Mortality: the Framingham Offspring Cohort
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2021
Use of Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) as a Health-Based Benchmark in Nutrition Research Studies that Consider the Safety of Low-Calorie Sweeteners (LCS): a Systematic Map
BMC Public Health, 2021
This paper aims to assess how benchmarks for safe levels of consumption of Low-Calorie Sweeteners (LCS) are utilized by researchers. In addition, it explores how varying use of such benchmarks may contribute to challenges in understanding and applying nutritional guidance for LCS consumption.
Update on “A Partnership for Public Health: USDA Global Branded Food Products Database”
Journal of Food Composition and Analysis, 2022
IAFNS is one of six partners whose goal is to improve public health and the sharing of open data by expanding and enhancing the USDA National Nutrient Database — now known as USDA FoodData Central — with nutrient composition and ingredient information on branded and private label foods to better reflect the food supply.
Understanding Tolerable Upper Level Intakes
Journal of Nutrition, 2006
The supplement, published in the Journal of Nutrition (2006;136(Suppl 1):487S-521S), includes articles describing the science behind the philosophy and methods for deriving upper tolerable intake levels (ULs), how public health can best be served by the use of upper levels, and research needs for advancing the science that is used to establish the upper level.
Understanding intentionally and non-intentionally added substances and associated Threshold of Toxicological Concern in post-consumer polyolefin for use as food packaging
Heliyon, 2024
This study identifies potentially harmful substances in polyolefin samples from material recovery facilities using gas-chromatography mass-spectrometry.