Appendix 1 Terms of reference, membership of working party and expert reviewers
Terms of reference
The Working Party developed the NRVNutrient Reference Valuess with input from many expert reviewers, in keeping with the following terms of reference established by the NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research Council.
In developing a set of new recommendations for Australia and New Zealand, the Working Party will:
Oversee the review of the 1991 Recommended dietary intakes for use in Australia adopted as the current New Zealand RDIRecommended dietary intakes;
Ensure that the recommendations are based on best available scientific evidence;
Base the review on a consideration of the processes and recommendations of the recent revision in the United States:Canadian Dietary Reference Intakes taking into account any unique aspects of the populations in Australia and New Zealand including environmental, geographical, physiological, ethnic and cultural factors of both countries.
Consider new scientific evidence and other recent recommendations from countries such as the UK, the European Union countries or FAOFood and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations:WHOWorld Health Organization of the United Nations;
Follow processes and standards acceptable to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, the New Zealand Ministry of Health including its obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and the National Health and Medical Research Council, including liaison with SIGNAL; and
Report to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing (Population Health Division) and to the New Zealand Ministry of Health through the Health Advisory Committee and the National Health and Medical Research Council.
Members of the working party
Dr Katrine Baghurst (Chair)
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences and Nutrition, Adelaide
Ms Elizabeth Aitken
Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, New Zealand
Ms Gayle Anderson (until September 2004 )
Food Policy Section, Population Health Division, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Professor Colin Binns
School of Public Health, Curtin University, WA
Professor Jennie Brand-Miller
Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney
Professor Sandra Capra (from December 2003)
School of Health Sciences University of Newcastle, New South Wales and Dietitian's Association of Australia
Dr Ivor Dreosti
Australian Nutrition Trust
Ms Janine Lewis
Food Standards Australia New Zealand
Professor Paul Nestel
Baker Heart Research Institute, Melbourne
Dr David Roberts
Australian Food and Grocery Council
Associate Professor Christine Thomson
Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Professor Stewart Truswell
Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Bio-Sciences, University of Sydney
Dr Peter Williams (until December 2003)
Department of Biomedical Science University of Wollongong and Dietitian's Association of Australia
Observers
Ms Letitia White (until December 2004)
Population Health Division, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Ms Bonnie Field (from January 2005)
Population Health Division, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing
Secretariat
Ms Kris Fisher (until August 2004)
Health Advisory Section, NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research Council
Ms Joanne Campbell (October-December 2004)
Health Advisory Section, NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research Council
Ms Julie Claydon (from January 2005)
Health Advisory Section, NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research Council
Ms Janine Keough (from January 2005)
Health Advisory Section, NHMRCNational Health and Medical Research Council
We are also grateful for the help of Ms Letitia White of Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing and Dr Ruth Richards and Ms Mary-Louise Hannah of the NZ Ministry of Health during the process.
Expert reviewers
The following people undertook from one to three expert reviews of nutrients according to the pro-forma included in the Appendix. The expert reviews were used by the Working Party in their decision process but the Working Party takes final responsibility for the draft recommendations. We are very grateful for the input of the following reviewers:
Dr Jane Allen
James Fairfax Institute, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney
Mr Alan Barclay
Diabetes Australia, Sydney
Dr Marijka Batterham
Smart Foods Centre, University of Wollongong
Dr Trevor Beard
Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, Hobart
Dr John R Brotherhood
School of Exercise and Sport Science, University of Sydney
Dr Peter Clifton
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences & Nutrition, Adelaide
Associate Professor Lynne Daniels
Public Health Nutrition Unit, Flinders University, Adelaide
Professor Cres Eastman
Australian Centre for Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ACCIConfidence intervalDD), Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Dr Chris Forbes-Ewan
Defence Food Science Centre, Scottsdale, Tasmania
Dr Michael Fenech
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences & Nutrition, Adelaide
Dr Elaine Ferguson
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Professor Rosalind Gibson
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Dr Tim Green
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Professor Peter Howe
University of Adelaide and University of South Australia
Dr Deborah Kerr
School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth
Dr Dorothy Mackerras
Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin
Dr Maria Makrides
Child Nutrition Research Centre, Women's & Children's Hospital, Adelaide
Associate Professor John Mamo
School of Public Health, Curtin University, Perth
Professor Jim Mann
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Dr Manny Noakes
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences & Nutrition, Adelaide
Professor Chris Nordin
Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide
Dr Carol Nowson
School of Health Sciences, Deakin University, Melbourne
Ms Ingrid Rutishauser
Metung, Victoria
Associate Professor Samir Samman
Human Nutrition unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Bio-Sciences, University of Sydney
Associate Professor Murray Skeaff
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Dr Cliff Tasman-Jones
St Heliers, Auckland
Associate Professor Campbell Thompson
Renal Unit, Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide
Associate Professor Christine Thomson
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Dr David Topping
CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences & Nutrition, Adelaide
Professor Stewart Truswell
Human Nutrition Unit, School of Molecular and Microbial Bio-Sciences, University of Sydney
Dr Bernard Venn
Dept of Human Nutrition, University of Otago, Dunedin
Dr Penny Warwick
School of Biological Sciences, University of New England, Armidale
Dr Carol Wham
Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, Albany
Dr Beverley Wood
Carlton, Victoria
Dr David Woodward
Department of Biochemistry, University of Tasmania
We are grateful to the New Zealand Government for funding and making available two expert reviews of selenium and iodine (Thomson & Patterson 2001, Thomson 2002) as part of the review process.
We are also grateful to the Australian Nutrition Trust for funding and making available three evidence-based reviews of the selenium, calcium and vitamin D recommendations from several overseas countries (Flight & Baghurst 2003a,b,c) and for funding the nutrient modelling exercise that was also used as a cross-check for the recommendations relating to the balance of macro- and micronutrients. We also thank Dr Peter Baghurst of the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide and Ms Sally Record of CSIROCommonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Health Sciences & Nutrition for assisting with the dietary modelling, Dr Jason Armfield of the University of Adelaide for additional assistance with the fluoride reference values and Dr Erika Turkstra and Dr Peter Abbott from FSANZFood Standards Australia New Zealand for specialist discussions on the ULUpper level of intakes.
