Table 5.
Summary statistics of chronic dietary exposure to the sum of T2 and HT2 across European dietary surveys and different age classes
| Age class | Minimum | Median | Maximum | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | |
| Mean dietary exposure in total population (ng/kg bw per day) | ||||||
| Infants | 4.41 | 19.3 | 14.9 | 31.1 | 18.3 | 62.9 |
| Toddlers | 8.99 | 49.8 | 15.3 | 55.6 | 29.0 | 64.8 |
| Other children | 8.50 | 35.1 | 11.1 | 45.4 | 18.0 | 62.1 |
| Adolescents | 4.37 | 15.4 | 6.59 | 27.9 | 11.3 | 38.9 |
| Adults | 2.54 | 14.3 | 3.62 | 19.8 | 8.82 | 26.4 |
| Elderly | 2.27 | 13.4 | 2.94 | 17.5 | 10.2 | 23.4 |
| Very elderly | 1.82 | 14.5 | 3.05 | 18.4 | 8.23 | 20.7 |
| Pregnant womenb | 5.72 | – | – | – | – | 20.5 |
| Lactating womenb | 4.60 | – | – | – | – | 15.9 |
| 95 th percentile dietary exposure in total population (ng/kg bw per day) | ||||||
| Infantsa | 18.0 | 50.5 | 45.1 | 89.6 | 53.9 | 146 |
| Toddlersa | 23.8 | 95.0 | 43.3 | 107 | 67.3 | 109 |
| Other children | 20.3 | 60.9 | 28.1 | 81.5 | 37.2 | 112 |
| Adolescents | 11.4 | 26.1 | 17.1 | 53.2 | 29.9 | 71.5 |
| Adults | 6.37 | 27.6 | 9.11 | 37.7 | 16.7 | 54.1 |
| Elderly | 5.41 | 26.8 | 7.32 | 33.6 | 20.9 | 41.8 |
| Very elderlya | 4.22 | 29.1 | 7.61 | 32.2 | 20.3 | 41.2 |
| Pregnant womenb | 14.0 | – | – | – | – | 38.5 |
| Lactating womenb | 13.4 | – | – | – | – | 33.3 |
bw: body weight; LB: lower bound; UB: upper bound.
a
The 95th percentile estimates obtained on dietary surveys/age classes with less than 60 observations may not be statistically robust (EFSA, 2011b) and therefore not included in this table.
b
Only one dietary survey available.