Table 7.
Summary statistics of total acute dietary exposure across European dietary surveys when assuming a default MRL of 0.01 mg/kg in all infant food categories (excluding conventional foods)
| Level of exposurea | Age class | N | Total acute dietary exposure (mg/kg bw) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum | Median | Maximum | |||
| Mean | Infants (3–6 months) | 3 | 0.0006 | 0.0008 | 0.0009 |
| Infants (6–12 months) | 6 | 0.0004 | 0.0005 | 0.0006 | |
| Toddlers | 10 | 0.0001 | 0.0002 | 0.0004 | |
| 95th percentile | Infants (3–6 months) | 3 | 0.0014 | 0.0015 | 0.0020 |
| Infants (6–12 months) | 5 | 0.0010 | 0.0011 | 0.0012 | |
| Toddlers | 8 | 0.0002 | 0.0006 | 0.0008 | |
| 97.5th percentile | Infants (3–6 months) | 3 | 0.0015 | 0.0016 | 0.0021 |
| Infants (6–12 months) | 5 | 0.0011 | 0.0012 | 0.0013 | |
| Toddlers | 5 | 0.0003 | 0.0009 | 0.0010 | |
N: number of surveys.
a
The 95th and 97.5th percentile estimates obtained on dietary surveys/age classes with less than 61 and 181 observations respectively may not be statistically robust (EFSA, 2011a). Those estimates were not included in this table.