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Article: 'Daily values' encourage healthy diet. (food labels) (includes related information) (Focus on Food Labeling) (Cover Story)
- Article from:
- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- May 1, 1993
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If you haven't added "DV" to your vocabulary yet, you probably will before long.
It stands for Daily Value, a new dietary reference value to help consumers use food label information to plan a healthy overall diet.
DVs actually comprise two sets of reference values for nutrients: Daily Reference Values, or DRVs, and Reference Daily Intakes, or RDIs. But these two sets are "behind the scenes" in food labeling; only the Daily Value term will appear on the label to make label reading less confusing.
In fact, said Christine Lewis, Ph.D., a registered dietitian and director of the division of technical evaluation in FDA's Office of Food Labeling, ...