{"term":{"id":"15679","title":"estimated daily intake","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - estimated daily intake","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15679","code":"15679","status":"current","initialism":"<em>initialism<\/em>: EDI","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Prediction of the daily intake of a residue of a potentially harmful agent based on the most realistic estimation of the residue levels in food and the best available food consumption data for a specific population: Residue levels are estimated taking into account known uses of the agent, the range of contaminated commodities, the proportion of a commodity treated, and the quantity of home-grown or imported commodities.","notes":{"1":"The EDI is expressed in \\(\\pu{mg}\\) residue per person."},"links":[{"term":"intake","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15820"}],"sources":["PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1217 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac200779071153)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15679\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15679\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15679\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'estimated daily intake' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.15679","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-10T13:24:51+00:00"}}