Table 12.

UL for children and adolescents aged 1–17 years

Age range	Reference bw males and females (kg) (a)	UL males and females (mg/day)
1–3 years	11.9	3.2
4–6 years	19.0	4.5
7–10 years	28.7	6.1
11–14 years	44.6	8.6
15–17 years	60.3	10.7

Bw: body weight; UL: tolerable upper intake level.

^(a)The median weight for age at the mid‐age of each age category used as reference weight. Sources: WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group (2006) for children aged 1–3 years; van Buuren et al. (2012) for children and adolescents aged 4–17 years.