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    • Benefit and risk assessment of fish in the Norwegian diet - Scientific Opinion of the Steering Committee of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment 

      Andersen, Lene Frost; Berstad, Paula; Bukhvalova, Barbara Alexandra; Carlsen, Monica Hauger; Dahl, Lisbeth Jane; Goksøyr, Anders; Sletting Jakobsen, Lea; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Kvestad, Ingrid; Lillegaard, Inger Therese Laugsand; Mangschou, Bente; Meyer, Haakon Eduard; Parr, Christine Louise; Rakkestad, Kirsten Eline; Rasinger, Josef; Sengupta, Sayantan; Skeie, Guri; Starrfelt, Jostein; Ulven, Stine Marie (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2022-06-07)
      In 2006, VKM published “A comprehensive assessment of fish and other seafood in the Norwegian diet”. The assessment supported the recommendation from Norwegian Health authorities to eat more fish both for dinner and on sandwiches. In an update of the assessment in 2014 VKM concluded that “the benefits from fish consumption clearly outweigh the negligible risk presented by current levels of ...
    • Coffee Consumption and Whole-Blood Gene Expression in the Norwegian Women and Cancer Post-Genome Cohort 

      Borgund Barnung, Runa; Nøst, Therese Haugdahl; Ulven, Stine Marie; Skeie, Guri; Olsen, Karina Standahl (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-09)
      Norwegians are the second highest consumers of coffee in the world. Lately, several studies have suggested that beneficial health effects are associated with coffee consumption. By analyzing whole-blood derived, microarray based mRNA gene expression data from 958 cancer-free women from the Norwegian Women and Cancer Post-Genome Cohort, we assessed the potential associations between coffee consumption ...
    • Protocol and description of literature searches for the risk-benefit assessment of fish in the Norwegian diet. The Steering Committee of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment 

      Andersen, Lene Frost; Berstad, Paula; Carlsen, Monica Hauger; Dahl, Lisbeth; Goksøyr, Anders; Knutsen, Helle Katrine; Kvestad, Ingrid; Lillegaard, Inger Therese Laugsand; Mangschou, Bente; Meyer, Haakon E; Nauta, Maarten; Rakkestad, Kirsten Eline; Rasinger, Josef Daniel; Skeie, Guri; Starrfelt, Jostein; Thomsen, Sofie; Ulven, Stine Marie; Agdestein, Angelika; Bodin, Johanna Eva; Elvevoll, Edel O.; Hessen, Dag Olav; Husøy, Trine; Krogdahl, Åshild; Nilsen, Asbjørn Magne; Skjerdal, Olaug Taran; Steffensen, Inger-Lise Karin; Strand, Tor A; Velle, Gaute; Wasteson, Yngvild; Hemre, Gro Ingunn; Vandvik, Vigdis; Alexander, Jan (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2020)
      Fish contains nutrients that are positive for our health. At the same time, it contains varying levels of undesirable substances that can have a negative effect on health. Undesirable substances can be found in different levels in most types of food. In a risk-benefit assessment, both the nutrients and the undesirable substances are assessed and it is evaluated whether it in total gives a more ...