Table 19.
Summary statistics of the probabilistic dietary acute exposure assessment to cyanide originating from foods containing CNGs across European dietary surveys and different age classes obtained by running 500 iterationsa
| Lower bound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group | No of surveys | Mean dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day) | No of surveys | P95 dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day) | ||
| Min (95% CI) | Max (95% CI) | Min (95% CI) | Max (95% CI) | |||
| Infants | 11 | 0.0 (0.0–0.9) | 4.4 (3.9–4.9) | 10 | 0.0 (0.0–0.0) | 21.9 (19.0–24.8) |
| Toddlers | 15 | 0.8 (0.7–1.0) | 8.3 (5.7–13.0) | 15 | 5.3 (4.2–6.2) | 40.5 (32.7–47.7) |
| Other children | 21 | 1.4 (1.3–1.6) | 6.9 (5.9–8.1) | 21 | 6.5 (6.0–7.1) | 37.5 (30.2–47.0) |
| Adolescents | 21 | 0.4 (0.3–0.5) | 3.6 (3.2–4.0) | 21 | 2.3 (2.0–2.7) | 18.5 (14.3–23.3) |
| Adults | 23 | 0.6 (0.5–0.7) | 2.6 (2.5–2.7) | 23 | 2.1 (1.8–2.4) | 13.5 (13.0–14.0) |
| Elderly | 20 | 0.5 (0.3–0.7) | 2.2 (2.0–2.4) | 20 | 1.3 (0.6–2.6) | 11.0 (10.0–12.2) |
| Very elderly | 17 | 0.8 (0.6–1.0) | 1.9 (1.5–2.4) | 15 | 2.8 (1.2–5.2) | 11.3 (7.3–17.0) |
| Pregnant women | 2 | 1.1 (1.0–1.3) | 1.4 (1.0–2.0) | 2 | 6.0 (4.0–8.6) | 6.7 (5.5–8.0) |
| Lactating women | 2 | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) | 1.4 (0.9–2.1) | 2 | 6.3 (4.9–7.7) | 7.2 (5.0–11.4) |
| Upper bound | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age group | No of surveys | Mean dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day) | No of surveys | P95 dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day) | ||
| Min (95% CI) | Max (95% CI) | Min (95% CI) | Max (95% CI) | |||
| Infants | 11 | 0.1 (0.0–0.9) | 6.1 (5.7–6.5) | 10 | 0.2 (0.1–0.4) | 27.8 (25.5–30.5) |
| Toddlers | 15 | 1.1 (0.9–1.2) | 13.5 (12.5–14.5) | 15 | 6.3 (5.6–7.3) | 51.7 (36.4–79.0) |
| Other children | 21 | 2.0 (1.9–2.2) | 12.6 (11.7–13.7) | 21 | 10.2 (9.5–11.0) | 46.4 (39.3–54.5) |
| Adolescents | 21 | 0.5 (0.5–0.7) | 5.7 (5.4–6.1) | 21 | 3.3 (3.0–3.7) | 23.7 (21.9–25.5) |
| Adults | 23 | 0.8 (0.8–0.9) | 4.4 (4.3–4.5) | 23 | 3.9 (3.7–4.1) | 18.8 (18.3–19.3) |
| Elderly | 20 | 0.8 (0.6–1.0) | 3.9 (3.8–4.1) | 20 | 3.0 (2.2–3.8) | 15.8 (14.7–17.0) |
| Very elderly | 16 | 1.2 (1.0–1.4) | 3.6 (3.3–4.0) | 15 | 5.7 (4.9–6.7) | 14.3 (12.8–16.7) |
| Pregnant women | 2 | 1.6 (1.4–1.7) | 2.4 (2.0–2.9) | 2 | 7.7 (6.8–8.8) | 8.2 (6.5–10.3) |
| Lactating women | 2 | 1.6 (1.4–1.9) | 2.7 (2.2–3.3) | 2 | 8.0 (6.9–9.1) | 11.0 (8.6–13.5) |
bw: body weight; CI: confidence interval; Min: minimum; Max: maximum; P95: 95th percentile.
a
Exposure calculated including the respective factors for the specific food items as given in Table 18.