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Dietary intake and risk evaluation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in The Netherlands
Bakker, M.; de Winter-Sorkina, R.; de Mul, A.; Boon, P.E.; van Donkersgoed, G.; van Klaveren, J.D.; Baumann, B.A.; Hijman, W.C.; Van Leeuwen, S.P.J.; de Boer, J.; Zeilmaker, M.J. (2008). Dietary intake and risk evaluation of polybrominated diphenyl ethers in The Netherlands. Mol. Nutr. Food Res. 52(2): 204-216
In: Molecular Nutrition and Food Research. Wiley Interscience. ISSN 1613-4125; e-ISSN 1613-4133, more
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Keywords
    Evaluation and assessment
    Food intake
    Polybrominated biphenyls
    Risk assessment
    Marine/Coastal

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  • Bakker, M.
  • de Winter-Sorkina, R.
  • de Mul, A.
  • Boon, P.E.
  • van Donkersgoed, G.
  • van Klaveren, J.D.
  • Baumann, B.A.
  • Hijman, W.C.
  • Van Leeuwen, S.P.J.
  • de Boer, J., more
  • Zeilmaker, M.J.

Abstract
    The current study aims at estimating the dietary intake of PBDEs in the Netherlands and evaluating the resultant risk. Dietary intake was estimated using results of PBDE analyses in Dutch food products from 2003/2004 and consumption data of the third Dutch National Food Consumption Survey (1997/1998). Assuming that non-detects represent levels of half the detection limit, the median long-term intake of the Dutch population of the sum of five major PBDEs (namely PBDEs 47, 99, 100, 153+154) is 0.79 ng/kg body weight bw/day (P97.5: 1.62 ng/kg bw/day). When non-detects are considered as zeros the values are 0.53 (median) and 1.34 (P97.5) ng/kg bw/day. Environmental concentrations of PBDEs in Europe are expected to decline in the near future because of the ban on penta- and octaBDE technical products. However, it will take at least a decade before this will result in lower PBDE concentrations in food products. Hence, a regular monitoring program for PBDEs is recommended. A risk evaluation at the most sensitive endpoints of BDE 99 carried out in this paper indicates that, although the long-term exposure to BDE 99 is well below the human exposure threshold level for neurodevelopmental toxicity, it may be close to that for reproductive toxicity.

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