Table 2.

Mean and standard deviation of dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (DL-PCBs), polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs), and non-dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls (NDL-PCBs) reported as upperbound concentrations.

	DL-PCB (pg WHO-TEQ/g)				PCDD/F (pg WHO-TEQ/g)				NDL-PCB (ng/g)
	min	mean	median	max	min	mean	median	max	min	mean	median	max
Vegetables
Amaryllidaceae (3) *	0.001	0.003	0.004	0.004	0.003	0.025	0.003	0.069	0.019	0.056	0.040	0.110
Fennel (3)	0.001	0.004	0.005	0.007	0.004	0.036	0.007	0.096	0.037	0.159	0.150	0.290
Asteraceae (5)	0.001	0.007	0.008	0.013	0.003	0.007	0.007	0.012	0.023	0.063	0.074	0.087
Brassicaceae (13)	0.002	0.008	0.006	0.051	0.002	0.010	0.008	0.034	0.026	0.166	0.064	1.260
Lettuce (3)	0.001	0.011	0.009	0.022	0.003	0.004	0.004	0.005	0.079	0.089	0.080	0.108
Pumpkin (2)	0.001	0.003	0.003	0.005	0.004	0.005	0.005	0.006	0.034	0.046	0.046	0.058
Courgette (7)	0.001	0.015	0.007	0.057	0.002	0.008	0.004	0.027	0.022	0.293	0.291	0.620
Fabaceae (9)	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.004	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.002	0.034	0.070	0.070	0.106
Olive (6)	0.003	0.024	0.021	0.055	0.008	0.040	0.050	0.072	0.130	0.522	0.485	0.980
Wheat (3)	0.042	0.056	0.054	0.073	0.008	0.016	0.009	0.031	0.120	0.390	0.210	0.840
Corn (12)	0.001	0.013	0.006	0.066	0.004	0.006	0.006	0.012	0.028	0.229	0.072	1.413
Peppers (8)	0.001	0.004	0.004	0.008	0.003	0.006	0.006	0.008	0.033	0.051	0.020	0.095
Tomato (31)	0.001	0.007	0.004	0.037	0.001	0.005	0.004	0.020	0.019	0.049	0.042	0.120
Aubergine (13)	0.001	0.004	0.003	0.007	0.002	0.006	0.005	0.012	0.019	0.046	0.042	0.101
Potato (23)	0.001	0.008	0.005	0.028	0.001	0.006	0.005	0.018	0.012	0.140	0.051	0.770
Fruits
Rosaceae (6)	0.002	0.004	0.003	0.006	0.002	0.007	0.005	0.019	0.011	0.064	0.026	0.230
Apricot (7)	0.003	0.045	0.034	0.086	0.006	0.029	0.025	0.064	0.029	0.914	1.230	1.540
Plum (22)	0.001	0.007	0.006	0.023	0.001	0.008	0.009	0.025	0.012	0.050	0.040	0.098
Peach (15)	0.001	0.006	0.005	0.023	0.002	0.008	0.004	0.020	0.017	0.041	0.038	0.067
Rutaceae (8)	0.008	0.003	0.001	0.008	0.003	0.006	0.006	0.008	0.028	0.065	0.037	0.024
Grape (4)	0.002	0.009	0.009	0.017	0.004	0.012	0.007	0.032	0.140	0.158	0.150	0.190
Melons (2)	0.007	0.032	0.032	0.058	0.001	0.011	0.011	0.021	0.039	0.534	0.534	1.030
Hazelnut (16)	0.003	0.020	0.008	0.106	0.003	0.014	0.011	0.060	0.049	0.445	0.185	2.600
Kaki (2)	0.002	0.004	0.004	0.006	0.002	0.003	0.003	0.003	0.036	0.043	0.043	0.050
Walnut (5)	0.006	0.035	0.030	0.078	0.004	0.036	0.019	0.078	0.130	0.444	0.380	0.860

* Sample size. TEQ: toxic equivalent.