Table 10.

Summary statistics of chronic dietary exposure to EAs (ng/kg bw per day) across European dietary surveys and different age classes

		Mean dietary exposure (μg/kg bw per day)
		Lower bound			Upper bound
Age classa	N	Min	Median	Max	Min	Median	Max
Infants	6	0.01	0.02	0.08	0.03	0.15	0.34
Toddlers	10	0.03	0.06	0.12	0.18	0.25	0.47
Other children	18	0.02	0.05	0.17	0.14	0.20	0.46
Adolescents	17	0.01	0.03	0.15	0.07	0.12	0.29
Adults	17	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.06	0.09	0.18
Elderly	14	0.01	0.02	0.05	0.05	0.09	0.14
Very elderly	12	0.01	0.02	0.06	0.05	0.09	0.16

		95th percentile dietary exposure b (μg/kg bw per day)
		Lower bound			Upper bound
Age class a	N	Min	Median	Max	Min	Median	Max
Infants	5	0.05	–c	0.19	0.29	–c	0.76
Toddlers	7	0.07	0.18	0.30	0.38	0.59	0.86
Other children	18	0.05	0.12	0.39	0.29	0.42	0.79
Adolescents	17	0.03	0.07	0.33	0.14	0.27	0.56
Adults	17	0.02	0.04	0.12	0.12	0.18	0.36
Elderly	14	0.02	0.04	0.10	0.11	0.17	0.28
Very elderly	9	0.02	0.03	0.09	0.12	0.15	0.26

bw: body weight; Max: maximum; Min: minimum; n: number of surveys.

^aSection 2.1.2 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. 2011b). Those estimates were not included in this table.

^cMinimum number of six dietary surveys are required to estimate a statistically robust median (EFSA, 2011b).