Suggested Citation:"2 Charge to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Defining Populations for Dietary Reference Intake Recommendations: A Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26733.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) was asked to appoint a standing committee to review the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) framework, structure, and process for future DRI reviews. The committee was tasked to consider past experiences and learnings from previous DRI reports, including Guiding Principles for Developing Dietary Reference Intakes Based on Chronic Disease (NASEM, 2017), recent meeting of experts, Strategic Planning for a New Review of Macronutrient Dietary Reference Intakes, and other relevant documents related to the DRI process such as The Development of DRIs 1994-2004: Lessons Learned and New Challenges: Workshop Summary (IOM, 2008). The standing committee was charged to produce letter reports in response to questions relevant to a range of questions relevant to the DRI framework and structuring new DRI reviews as questions arise from various DRI consensus committees (see Box 2-1). The committee’s response to the questions posed was to provide overarching responses that could apply across future DRI reviews as well as the current review. Because there will be differences in the application of the standing committee’s advice to future DRI studies, the committee determined that this approach was the most appropriate way to respond to the questions. The sponsor will use the standing committee discussions to inform future DRI reviews, including a review of the DRIs for macronutrients.
Suggested Citation:"2 Charge to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Defining Populations for Dietary Reference Intake Recommendations: A Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26733.
Suggested Citation:"2 Charge to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Defining Populations for Dietary Reference Intake Recommendations: A Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26733.
Suggested Citation:"2 Charge to the Committee." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2022. Defining Populations for Dietary Reference Intake Recommendations: A Letter Report. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/26733.
Since 1997, the United States and Canada have adopted harmonized Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs), a set of nutrient intake reference values for use in planning and assessing diets for individuals and groups in both countries. In 2022 the U.S. Department of Agriculture asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a Standing Committee to review the DRI framework, including the structure and process that will guide future DRI reviews, and respond to questions posed by the U.S. and Canadian Federal DRI working group. Dietary recommendations have traditionally been designed for populations that were referred to as healthy or apparently healthy. The imprecise terminology and definition of these terms may exclude the increasing number of American and Canadian citizens with chronic disease. In its first letter report, the Standing Committee offers its advice on how to define the population to be considered for DRI recommendations for the United States and Canada.
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