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The internal dose by food consumption mostly accounts for radiological dose of public around nuclear power plants (NPPs).But, food consumption rates applied to off-site dose calculation in Korea which are the result of field investigation around Kori NPP bythe KAERI (Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute) in 1988, are not able to reflect the latest dietary characteristics of Korean. Thefood consumption rates to be used for radiological dose assessment in Korea are based on the maximum individual of US NRC(Nuclear Regulatory Commssion) Regulatory Guide 1.109. However, the representative individual of the critical group is considered inthe recent ICRP (International Commission on Radiological Protection) recommendation and European nations' practice. Therefore, thestudy on the re-establishment of the food consumption rates for individual around nuclear power plant sites in Korea was carried out toreflect on the recent change of the Korean dietary characteristics and to apply the representative individual of critical group to domesticregulations. The Ministry of Health and Welfare Affairs has investigated the food and nutrition of nations every 3 years based on theLaw of National Health Improvement. The statistical data such as mean, standard deviation, various percentile values about foodconsumption rates to be used for the representative individual of the critical group were analyzed by using the raw data of the nationalfood consumption survey in 2001~2002. Also, the food consumption rates for maximum individual are re-estimated.