Table 4.

Margin of exposure (MOE) of a) total PAH8 concentration (∑PAH8) and b) total B[a]P toxic equivalent quantity (TEQ_B[a]p) of PAH8, with contributions from marine products, for the total consumer population and different age groups, with lower bound (LB) and upper bound (UB) estimates

Category	1–2 years (n = 519)		3–6 years (n = 1062)		7–12 years (n = 1601)		13–19 years (n = 1629)		20–64 years (n = 11,592)		over 64 years (n = 4268)		Total population (n = 20,671)
(Number of composite samples)	LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB
a)
Fish (55)	334,126	257,240	329,672	263,828	619,093	449,885	1,051,318	744,090	566,051	396,746	872,216	561,154	608,627	425,384
Shellfish (17)	4,173,301	2,948,542	7,478,775	4,722,478	5,589,635	3,822,012	8,217,150	5,511,352	3,998,845	2,730,755	5,835,694	4,201,324	4,413,599	3,025,218
Cephalopoda (8)	3,794,026	2,616,220	5,293,790	2,205,153	5,108,335	2,656,666	8,889,355	3,656,622	6,277,911	2,703,296	35,798,002	7,379,119	7,054,954	2,978,939
Crustacea (8)	94,098,922	4,771,464	77,683,847	4,219,418	84,572,057	5,571,220	313,668,411	8,208,975	135,702,943	7,360,908	123,900,514	11,871,437	135,341,634	7,565,106
Sea algae (16)	39,768,295	576,548	34,393,293	936,354	54,995,892	1,386,110	130,885,860	2,881,249	97,036,196	1,498,867	118,496,348	1,163,862	95,388,260	1,472,543
Echinodermata (2)	–	–	–	–	6,445,122	6,433,294	22,903,645	22,647,957	1,401,658	1,399,306	10,230,093	10,164,192	1,821,130	1,817,747
Tunicata (2)	1,649,994,173	347,735,179	57,460,091	46,883,430	99,486,485	75,014,965	31,639,822	27,095,451	33,139,024	26,196,820	58,251,076	45,630,811	35,877,873	28,543,013
Cnidaria (1)	–	–	–	–	9,316,679,023	3,616,709,611	4,707,911,175	1,827,598,391	624,141,042	242,289,865	1,542,127,897	598,649,881	774,970,282	300,841,368
Total marine products (109)	1,792,162,843	358,905,194	182,639,467	59,230,660	9,573,495,642	3,712,043,762	5,225,166,737	1,898,344,087	902,263,669	284,576,563	1,895,511,840	679,621,779	1,055,476,358	346,669,319
b)
Fish (55)	910,244	446,434	844,739	474,122	1,667,605	751,356	2,766,079	1,206,274	1,354,396	622,877	2,016,766	812,546	1,467,855	666,886
Shellfish (17)	76,293,931	5,884,162	100,892,860	7,858,807	80,115,752	7,115,484	125,170,607	9,945,102	51,909,404	4,900,896	83,707,628	8,376,380	58,483,416	5,755,430
Cephalopoda (8)	53,148,375	4,951,244	73,248,030	2,678,672	69,919,626	3,767,841	125,452,128	4,489,832	88,277,852	3,436,359	446,805,458	7,235,757	98,751,030	3,738,716
Crustacea (8)	1,770,251,200	4,339,809	1,461,439,931	3,848,072	1,591,025,493	5,125,266	5,900,937,719	7,332,007	2,552,933,572	6,712,720	2,330,898,461	11,173,842	2,546,136,377	6,907,488
Sea algae (16)	179,469,856	724,207	156,997,074	1,120,714	336,997,268	1,723,959	693,764,875	3,533,473	491,833,900	1,871,167	536,103,140	1,480,177	482,062,531	1,840,611
Echinodermata (2)	–	–	–	–	35,763,094	35,292,123	127,177,853	117,539,177	7,777,516	7,683,768	56,784,840	54,231,720	10,105,218	9,970,520
Tunicata (2)	16,499,941,725	334,063,204	451,146,740	107,479,626	785,944,268	150,611,606	247,544,766	68,457,950	260,817,831	56,751,502	458,784,952	97,342,423	282,235,083	62,517,277
Cnidaria (1)	–	–	–	–	35,948,359,927	3,797,862,795	18,165,451,982	1,919,138,853	2,408,245,125	254,425,642	5,950,292,862	628,634,962	2,990,218,999	315,909,864
Total marine products (109)	18,580,015,331	350,409,060	2,244,569,374	123,460,013	38,849,793,033	4,002,250,430	25,388,266,009	2,131,642,668	5,863,149,596	336,404,931	9,865,394,107	809,287,807	6,469,460,509	407,306,792