Table 3.

Acute exposure risk assessment of the DON metabolites, OTA, and ZEN, with full mycotoxin extraction into the beverages (worst-case scenario).

Tea variety	Mycotoxin	Concentration (µg kg−1)		PDI (µg kg−1 bw day−1)		PDI/TDI (%) ***
		UB	Max	UB	Max	UB	Max
Green	OTA	0.60	3.40	2.96 × 10−5	1.68 × 10−4	0.17	0.98
	AFB1	0.47	2.99	2.32 × 10−5	1.47 × 10−4	0.01	0.09
	∑(AFs) *	1.55	7.67	7.64 × 10−5	3.78 × 10−4	0.04	0.22
	DON	127	859	6.26 × 10−3	4.23 × 10−2	0.63	4.23
	∑(DON derivatives) **	740	4512	3.65 × 10−2	2.22 × 10−1	3.60	22.2
Black	OTA	0.97	7.70	4.41 × 10−5	3.50 × 10−4	0.26	2.05
	AFB1	2.36	39	1.07 × 10−4	1.77 × 10−3	0.06	1.04
	∑(AFs) *	6.35	103	2.88 × 10−4	4.68 × 10−3	0.17	2.75
	DON	28.5	211	1.29 × 10−3	9.59 × 10−3	0.13	0.96
	∑(DON derivatives) **	103	549	4.68 × 10−3	2.49 × 10−2	1.00	2.50
Pu-erh	OTA	0.71	4.05	1.84 × 10−5	1.86 × 10−4	0.19	1.08
	AFB1	1.30	9.17	5.91 × 10−5	4.17 × 10−4	0.03	0.25
	∑(AFs) *	3.18	20.1	1.44 × 10−4	9.13 × 10−4	0.08	0.54
	DON	2221	8946	4.06 × 10−1	4.06 × 10−1	10.1	40.6
	∑(DON derivatives) **	5461	17360	7.89 × 10−1	7.89 × 10−1	24.8	78.9
	ZEN	11.3	56.1	5.13 × 10−4	2.76 × 10−3	0.20	1.11
Peppermint	OTA	2.99	4.2	1.07 × 10−4	1.51 × 10−4	0.63	0.88
	AFB1	2.84	5.62	1.02 × 10−4	2.02 × 10−4	0.06	0.12
	∑(AFs) *	8.16	15.7	2.93 × 10−4	5.63 × 10−4	0.17	0.33
	DON	567	953	7.67 × 10−2	3.42 × 10−2	2.03	3.42
	∑(DON derivatives) **	3599	5631	1.29 × 10−1	2.02 × 10−1	12.9	27.7

UB: upper-bound level of mean. * ∑(AFs): the total concentration of AFB₁, AFB₂, AFG₁, and AFG₂. ** ∑(DON derivatives): the total concentration of DON, D3G, 3-AcDON, and 15-AcDON; TDI (DON) = 1 µg kg⁻¹ bw day⁻¹, TDI(∑(DON metabolites)) = 1; TDI(OTA) = 0.0171 µg kg⁻¹ bw day⁻¹; TDI(ZEN) = 0.25 µg kg⁻¹ bw day⁻¹. *** For sum of aflatoxins, the benchmark dose lower confidence limit (BMDL₁₀) for a 10% increase in cancer incidence obtained from animal study data modelling (170 ng kg⁻¹ bw day⁻¹) was considered.