List of Abbreviations and Technical Terms
In this guide
In this guide
ADI |
Acceptable Daily Intake |
AFSCA ALP |
Belgium’s Federal Agency for Food Chain Safety Alkaline Phosphatase |
ALT |
Alanine Aminotransferase |
ANS Panel |
Scientific Panel on Food Additives and Nutrient Sources Added to Food |
ANSES |
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety |
AST |
Aspartate Aminotransferase |
AUC |
Area Under the Curve |
As |
Arsenic |
BDMC |
Bisdemethoxycurcumin |
BfR |
German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment |
BMDL CCM |
Benchmark Dose Lower Confidence Level Curcumin |
Cd |
Cadmium |
CO2 |
Carbon Dioxide |
CONTAM Panel |
Scientific Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain |
COT |
Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment |
Cr |
Chromium |
DILIN |
United States Drug-Induced Liver Injury Network |
DMC |
Desmethoxycurcumin |
EC |
European Commission |
EFSA |
European Food Safety Authority |
EU |
European Union |
EXPOCHI |
Exposure Assessments For Children In Europe |
FAO |
Food and Agricultural Organisations of the United Nations |
GD |
Gestation Day |
GGT |
Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase |
HBGVs |
Health-Based Guidance Values |
Hg |
Mercury |
HPLC |
High Performance Liquid Chromatography |
IARC |
International Agency for Research on Cancer |
IDH |
Idiosyncratic Drug Hepatotoxicity |
JECFA |
Joint FAO-WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives |
mg |
Milligrams |
mg/kg bw/day |
Milligrams per Kilogram Bodyweight per Day |
ML |
Maximum Level |
MOE |
Margin of Exposure |
MPL |
Maximum Permitted Levels |
mRNA |
Messenger Ribonucleic Acid |
NDA Panel |
Scientific Panel on Nutrition, Novel Foods and Food Allergens |
NDS |
National Diet and Nutrition Survey |
NOAEL NTP |
No-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level National Toxicology Program |
Pb PK |
Lead Pharmacokinetic |
SBP |
Systolic Blood Pressure |
SCF |
Scientific Committee for Food |
SD |
Standard Deviation |
TDI |
Tolerable Daily Intake |
TK |
Toxicokinetic |
UK |
United Kingdom |
WHO |
World Health Organisation |