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Table 2.

Summary of calculated tolerable human intakes of ochratoxin A (OTA) by international organization.

Organization	Tolerable intake metric^*	Limit	Reference
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)	PTWI	120 ng/kg bw/week	EFSA, 2006
Health Canada	PTDI	3 ng/kg bw/day	Kuiper-Goodman et al., 2010
Health Canada	NCRI	4 ng/kg bw/day	Kuiper-Goodman et al., 2010
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) 2007	PTWI	100 ng/kg bw/week	JECFA, 2007
Nordic Expert Group on Food Safety	TDI	5 ng/kg bw/day	Olson et al., 1991
Scientific Committee of Food (SCF) of the European Union	PTDI	5 ng/kg bw/day	EFSA, 2006

TDI - tolerable daily intake; PTDI - provisional tolerable daily intake; PTWI - provisional tolerable weekly intake; NCRI - negligible cancer risk intake