Dietary Reference Values are under the interest of the European Food Safety Authority too, which intend to extend them at the EU level.
EFSA met in September 2009 with representative of the Member States in order to gain their views on fats, carbohydrates, fibres and water as well as Food-Based Dietary Guidelines.
In any case, there is much literature referring to this link, on journals with very high impact factor and statistically robust design and results Many problems seem nowadays to derive from having integrated EU level DRV: General advice is given for healthy people using the table.
The British government recommended that healthy people should eat a diet which contains plenty of starch (rice, bread, pasta and potatoes).
Where different intakes for males and females are recommended, the higher value is identified in the table below to ensure that the greatest daily needs of the group is met: