<P> The Reference Daily Intake or Recommended Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily intake level of a nutrient that is considered to be sufficient to meet the requirements of 97--98% of healthy individuals in every demographic in the United States . While developed for the US population, it has been adopted by other countries, though not universally . </P> <P> The RDI is used to determine the Daily Value (DV) of foods, which is printed on nutrition facts labels (as% DV) in the United States and Canada, and is regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada respectively . </P> <P> The Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDAs) were a set of nutrition recommendations that evolved into both the Dietary Reference Intake (DRI) system of nutrition recommendations (which still defines RDA values) and the RDIs used for food labelling . The first regulations governing U.S. nutrition labels specified a% U.S. RDA declaration based on the current RDA values, which had been published in 1968 . Later, the% U.S. RDA was renamed the% DV and the RDA values that the% DVs were based on became the RDIs . </P>

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