Table 43.

Summary statistics of chronic dietary exposure assessments to the 17 PCDD/Fs across European dietary surveys (Assessment group B)

Age classa	N	Mean dietary exposure (pg WHO2005‐TEQ/kg bw per day)
		Minimumb		Medianb		Maximumb
		LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB
Infants c	6	0.18	0.35	0.28	0.47	0.47	0.70
Toddlers	10	0.28	0.45	0.51	0.75	0.92	1.28
Other children	18	0.21	0.34	0.40	0.59	0.89	1.25
Adolescents	17	0.11	0.17	0.24	0.34	0.48	0.68
Adults	17	0.14	0.20	0.25	0.34	0.36	0.51
Elderly	14	0.19	0.26	0.23	0.31	0.42	0.52
Very elderly	12	0.20	0.27	0.23	0.31	0.39	0.50

Age classa	N	95th percentile dietary exposure (pg WHO2005‐TEQ/kg bw per day)
		Minimumb		Medianb		Maximumb
		LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB
Infants c	5	0.57	0.95	0.70	1.04	1.06	1.44
Toddlers	7	0.67	1.02	0.89	1.20	1.76	2.42
Other children	18	0.47	0.72	0.99	1.31	1.75	2.27
Adolescents	17	0.30	0.43	0.58	0.80	1.30	1.62
Adults	17	0.41	0.50	0.57	0.72	0.97	1.12
Elderly	14	0.35	0.52	0.69	0.85	1.29	1.37
Very elderly	9	0.38	0.55	0.69	0.83	0.87	1.03

bw: body weight; LB: lower bound; N: number of surveys; UB: upper bound; DL‐PCBs: dioxin‐like polychlorinated biphenyls; PCDD/Fs: polychlorinated dibenzo‐p‐dioxins and dibenzofurans; TEQ: toxic equivalents.

^aSection 2.4 describes the age range within each age class.

^bThe 95th percentile estimates obtained on dietary surveys/age classes with less than 60 observations may not be statistically robust (EFSA, 2011a). Those estimates were not included in this table.

^cNot including intake from breast milk.