Table 6.

Estimated dietary exposures (DE) and BTHQ values of Cu, Pb, As, Cd and Hg in C. sinensis

	Cu	Pb	As	Cd	Hg	Total
DE	2.21	0.21	1.41	0.02	0.01	3.86
BTHQ	0.0041	0.0040	0.5334	0.0020	0.0005	0.5440
PTDI	500	3.57	50	1	0.5

DE is the dietary exposure (µg kg⁻¹ body weight day⁻¹)

PTDI is the provisional tolerable daily intake suggested by JECFA [28] given in µg kg⁻¹ body weight day⁻¹. The value of Hg refers to the limit of methyl mercury suggested by CAC