Table 16.
Summary statistics of the chronic dietary exposure to DAS (ng/kg bw per day) across European countries
| Age group | N | Mean dietary exposure (ng/kg bw per day) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Median | Maximum | |||||
| LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | ||
| Infants | 11 | 0.2 | 14.9 | 1.4 | 54.4 | 8.0 | 92.3 |
| Toddlers | 14 | 0.5 | 49.0 | 1.4 | 81.2 | 23.5 | 184.8 |
| Other children | 19 | 0.4 | 34.4 | 1.2 | 70.1 | 27.9 | 174.3 |
| Adolescents | 18 | 0.2 | 23.5 | 1.2 | 44.3 | 18.4 | 105.9 |
| Adults | 19 | 0.2 | 16.3 | 0.9 | 24.5 | 8.9 | 66.2 |
| Elderly | 18 | 0.2 | 12.6 | 0.8 | 19.8 | 5.9 | 46.2 |
| Very elderly | 15 | 0.2 | 12.2 | 0.7 | 23.3 | 4.5 | 39.5 |
| Age classa | N | 95th percentile dietary exposure (ng/kg bw per day) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Median | Maximum | |||||
| LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | ||
| Infants | 10 | 0.5 | 67.3 | 3.9 | 107.6 | 41.2 | 315.9 |
| Toddlers | 12 | 1.0 | 97.6 | 3.8 | 150.3 | 88.0 | 488.1 |
| Other children | 19 | 1.0 | 71.8 | 4.4 | 155.8 | 97.0 | 490.5 |
| Adolescents | 17 | 0.5 | 49.5 | 3.6 | 104.3 | 52.4 | 264.7 |
| Adults | 19 | 0.6 | 35.2 | 2.1 | 55.5 | 35.9 | 194.4 |
| Elderly | 18 | 0.4 | 29.1 | 1.4 | 45.7 | 28.8 | 156.9 |
| Very elderly | 10 | 0.4 | 30.9 | 1.1 | 51.2 | 21.8 | 110.8 |
bw: body weight; LB: lower bound; UB: upper bound; N: number of surveys.
a
The 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.