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Risk appetite is the level of risk that an organization is prepared to accept in pursuit of its objectives, [1] before action is deemed necessary to reduce the risk. It represents a balance between the potential benefits of innovation and the threats that change inevitably brings.
The term TWI should be reserved for when there is a well-established and internationally accepted tolerance, backed by sound and uncontested data. Although similar in concept to tolerable daily intake (TDI), which is of the same derivation of acceptable daily intakes (ADIs), TWI accounts for contaminants that do not clear the body quickly and ...
The desire to eat food, or appetite, is another sensation experienced with regard to eating. [ 3 ] The term hunger is also the most commonly used in social science and policy discussions to describe the condition of people who suffer from a chronic lack of sufficient food and constantly or frequently experience the sensation of hunger, and can ...
Risk assessments can be done in individual cases, including in patient and physician interactions. [4] In the narrow sense chemical risk assessment is the assessment of a health risk in response to environmental exposures. [5]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has introduced a TDI for melamine as 0.2 milligrams (mg)/kg body weight (b.w.) as of 2008. [5] Similarly the established TDI range for dioxin according to WHO is 1-4 picograms toxic equivalency/kg body weight as of 1998. [6]
Sensory specific satiety is a phenomenon that refers to the declining satisfaction generated by the consumption of a certain type of food, and the consequent renewal in appetite resulting from the exposure to a new flavour or food. [1] The energy density and nutrient composition of foods has little effect on sensory-specific satiety.
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Appetite is the desire to eat food items, usually due to hunger. Appealing foods can stimulate appetite even when hunger is absent, although appetite can be greatly reduced by satiety . [ 1 ] Appetite exists in all higher life-forms, and serves to regulate adequate energy intake to maintain metabolic needs.