In France, official recommendations advocate a daily calcium intake far exceeding internationally established guidelines. Of the 33 experts from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) who recommended consuming three dairy products per day, 26 declared current or past conflicts of interest with the food industry. This explains why the recommended intake in France is more than double that of the World Health Organization ( WHO), which sets the guideline at around 500 mg of calcium per day for an adult. The French agency thus recommends
Supplementation is strongly discouraged!
