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Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6015.html DIETARY REFERENCE INTAKES DRI FOR Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline A Report of the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes and its Panel on Folate, Other B Vitamins, and Choline and Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients Food and Nutrition Board Institute of Medicine NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS Washington, D.C. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6015.html NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS • 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. • Washington, DC 20418 NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate balance. This project was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Contract No. 282-96-0033, T01; the National Institutes of Health Office of Nutrition Supplements, Contract No. N01-OD-4-2139, T024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Preven- tion and Health Promotion, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity; Health Canada; the Institute of Medicine; and the Dietary Reference Intakes Corporate Donors’ Fund. Contribu- tors to the Fund include Roche Vitamins Inc, Mead Johnson Nutrition Group, Daiichi Fine Chemicals, Inc, Kemin Foods, Inc, M&M Mars, Weider Nutrition Group, and Natural Source Vitamin E Association. The opinions or conclusions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the funders. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dietary reference intakes for thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, pantothenic acid, biotin, and choline / a report of the Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes and its Panel on Folate, Other B Vitamins, and Choline and Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients, Food and Nutrition Board, Institute of Medicine. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-309-06554-2 (pbk.) -- ISBN 0-309-06411-2 (case) 1. Vitamin B in human nutrition. 2. Reference values (Medicine) I. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Standing Committee on the Scientific Evaluation of Dietary Reference Intakes. II. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Panel on Folate, Other B Vitamins, and Choline. III. Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients. 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ALLEN, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis LYNN B. BAILEY, Food Science and Human Nutrition Department, University of Florida, Gainesville MERTON BERNFIELD, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston PHILLIPE De WALS, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Quebec RALPH GREEN, Department of Pathology, University of California at Davis Medical Center, Sacramento DONALD B. McCORMICK, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta ROBERT M. RUSSELL, Department of Medicine and Nutrition at the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston BARRY SHANE, Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of California, Berkeley STEVEN H. ZEISEL, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina School of Public Health and School of Medicine, Chapel Hill IRWIN H. ROSENBERG, Clinical Nutrition Division, the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University and New England Medical Center, Boston, Liaison to the Panel from the Subcommittee on Upper Reference Levels of Nutrients Staff CAROL W. SUITOR, Study Director ELISABETH A. REESE, Research Associate ALICE L. KULIK, Research Assistant MICHELE RAMSEY, Project Assistant v Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6015.html SUBCOMMITTEE ON UPPER REFERENCE LEVELS OF NUTRIENTS IAN C. MUNRO (Chair), CanTox, Inc., Mississauga, Ontario WALTER MERTZ, Retired, U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center, Rockville, Maryland RITA B. MESSING, Division of Environmental Health, Minnesota Department of Health, St. Paul SANFORD A. 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