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. 2006 Jul 13;114(10):1515–1520. doi: 10.1289/ehp.9121

Table 6.

Daily PBDE dietary intake from food sources (pg/kg, or parts per quadrillion bw).

Age (years)/sex/bw
Food 0–1 M and F (5 kg) 2–5 M and F (16 kg) 6–11 M and F (29 kg) 12–19 M (55 kg) 12–19 F (49 kg) 20–39 M (70 kg) 20–39 F (60 kg) 40–59 M (70 kg) 40–59 F (60 kg) ≥60 M (70 kg) ≥60 F (60 kg)
Dairy
 Ice cream and ice milk 0 63 59 33 35 25 17 27 20 30 22
 Milk 0 191 113 61 42 29 27 29 25 30 28
 Total cheese 0 173 121 118 83 90 62 56 46 37 28
 Total dairy 427 293 212 160 144 106 112 91 97 78
Meat
 Poultry 0 790 477 449 344 413 331 396 331 275 291
 Beef 0 211 177 187 126 168 93 134 88 95 74
 Pork 0 52 36 37 23 34 22 34 22 32 22
 Bacon 0 6 4 4 2 3 2 3 3 4 3
 Processed meat 0 780 476 334 215 300 164 244 153 178 120
 Total meat 1,839 1,170 1,011 710 918 612 811 597 584 510
Fish
 Total fish 0 280 232 163 137 160 149 208 187 224 243
Eggs
 Total eggs 0 69 38 31 24 27 21 30 23 32 26
Fat
 Margarine 0 6 6 3 4 3 3 4 4 5 4
 Butter 0 30 17 9 10 14 8 7 8 14 8
 Total fat products 36 23 12 14 17 11 11 12 19 12
 Human milk 306,560 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sum PBDE intake per body weight (pg/kg-day ww) 306,560 2,652 1,755 1,429 1,045 1,264 900 1,172 912 957 869

Abbreviations: bw, body weight; F, female; M, male; ww, wet weight.