Table 12.

Summary statistics of the chronic dietary exposure assessment (mg/kg bw per day) to MOSH across European dietary surveys. n, number of dietary surveys

	Mean dietary exposure (mg/kg bw per day)
		Lower bound (LB)			Upper bound (UB)
	n	Min	Median	Max	Min	Median	Max
Infants	12	0.026	0.055	0.085	0.041	0.081	0.126
Toddlers	15	0.043	0.050	0.070	0.061	0.079	0.104
Other children	19	0.034	0.040	0.053	0.051	0.062	0.069
Adolescents	21	0.017	0.021	0.032	0.026	0.031	0.045
Adults	22	0.009	0.015	0.020	0.016	0.023	0.028
Elderly	19	0.009	0.013	0.017	0.014	0.021	0.025
Very elderly	14	0.009	0.016	0.017	0.015	0.024	0.027
Pregnant women	6	0.010	0.013	0.018	0.016	0.020	0.027
Lactating women	2	0.014	–	0.020	0.025	–	0.028
Vegetarians	1	–	–	0.012	–	–	0.018
	95th percentile dietary exposure (mg/kg bw per day)
	n	Lower bound (LB)			Upper bound (UB)
		Min	Median	Max	Min	Median	Max
Infants	12	0.054	0.098	0.157	0.086	0.138	0.212
Toddlers	15	0.070	0.086	0.125	0.095	0.130	0.176
Other children	19	0.058	0.069	0.086	0.085	0.104	0.119
Adolescents	21	0.033	0.038	0.059	0.048	0.055	0.081
Adults	22	0.020	0.029	0.037	0.029	0.041	0.049
Elderly	19	0.016	0.025	0.034	0.025	0.035	0.048
Very elderly	14	0.016	0.028	0.036	0.027	0.041	0.050
Pregnant women	6	0.020	0.025	0.033	0.028	0.036	0.046
Lactating women	2	0.025	–	0.037	0.040	–	0.050
Vegetarians	1	0.027			0.038