Table 52.
Estimated P95 and mean exposure to the sum of PCDD/Fs and DL‐PCBs (29 congeners) by companion animals (dogs and cats)
| Diet concentration (pg WHO2005‐TEQ/kg DM) | Exposure (pg WHO2005‐TEQ/day) | Exposure (pg WHO2005‐TEQ/kg bw per day) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | P95 | Mean | P95 | Mean | P95 | ||
| Estimates derived from LB and UB concentrations in specific manufactured compound feeds | |||||||
| Dogsa | LB | 141 | – | 51 | – | 2.0 | – |
| UB | 173 | – | 62 | – | 2.5 | – | |
| Estimates derived from LB and UB concentrations in feeds and their relative proportions in diets | |||||||
| Cats | LB | 49 | 159 | 2.9 | 9.5 | 0.70 | 2.4 |
| UB | 59 | 167 | 3.5 | 10 | 0.88 | 2.5 | |
bw: body weigh; LB: lower bound; UB: upper bound; DM: dry matter.
a
Insufficient samples were available to estimate P95 exposure.