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Dietary Reference Intake

Dietary Reference Intake is a set of guidelines set up in 1997 to give more detailed guidance than the RDA system which preceeded it. It was a collaboration between the USA and Canada.

It dropped the name RDA in favour of Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs)

It added three new categories:

External Links

US Government
Food and Nutrition Information Center list of Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) and Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)