Table 15.

Summary statistics of the specific scenario assessing chronic dietary exposure to furan across European dietary surveys, assuming that all ready‐to‐eat meals for infants and small children are re‐heated in a hot‐water bath (without lid)

Age classa	N	Mean dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day)
		Minimumb		Medianb		Maximumb
		LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB
Infants	6	0.14	0.21	0.29	0.37	0.61	0.72
Toddlers	10	0.22	0.31	0.34	0.44	0.52	0.65

Age class a	N	95th percentile dietary exposure c (μg/kg bw per day)
		Minimum b		Median b		Maximum b
		LB	UB	LB	UB	LB	UB
Infants	5	0.27	0.42	0.70	0.84	1.15	1.32
Toddlers	7	0.34	0.46	0.57	0.74	0.77	0.91

bw: body weight; LB: lower bound; N: number of surveys; UB: upper bound.

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

^bEstimates were rounded to two decimal places.

^cThe 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.