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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2015 Mar 13;0:507–517. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.02.072

Table 5.

Estimate of vegetable consumption contribution from the three study areas: Garda Lake (GL), Valcamonica (VC), Bagnolo Mella (BM) to the maximum tolerable daily lead intake (Pb) and mean lifetime dietary cadmium (Cd) intake in children and persons > 10 years old.

Spinach Turnip
Pb* Cd§ Pb* Cd§
VC BM GL VC BM GL VC BM GL VC BM GL
Children (3–10 years old)
mean daily intake (%) 0.16 (15) 0.08 (8) 0.26 (25) 0.04 (11) 0.03 (8) 0.07 (19) 0.01 (1) 0.01 (1) 0.02 (2) 0.01 (2) 0.01 (4) 0.01 (3)
95th percentile (%) 0.33 (32) 0.15 (15) 0.59 (57) 0.09 (26) 0.05 (15) 0.21 (58) 0.03 (3) 0.02 (2) 0.03 (3) 0.01 (3) 0.03 (7) 0.03 (8)
Persons > 10 years old
mean daily intake (%) 0.13 (18) 0.07 (10) 0.20 (30) 0.03 (9) 0.02 (6) 0.05 (15) 0.00 (0) 0.00 (1) 0.00 (1) 0.00 (1) 0.01 (2) 0.00 (1)
95th percentile (%) 0.40 (39) 0.19 (18) 0.70 (68) 0.08 (21) 0.04 (12) 0.16 (46) 0.00 (1) 0.00 (1) 0.00 (1) 0.00 (1) 0.01 (3) 0.01 (3)
*

μg kg−1 body weight day−1 in percentage of Mean Pb Lifetime Dietary Intake of 1.03 μg kg−1 bw day−1 for 3–10 yrs old children and of 0.68 μg kg−1 bw day−1 for persons >10 years old.

§

μg kg−1 body weight day−1 in percentage of Cd Tolerable Daily Intake of 0.36 μg kg−1 bw.