TIME TRENDS IN HUMAN DIETARY EXPOSURE TO PCDDS, PCDFS AND PCBS IN THEUK

Authors
HARRISON N WEARNE S GEM MGD GLEADLE A STARTIN J THORPE S WRIGHT C KELLY M ROBINSON C WHITE S HARDY D EDINBURGH V
Citation
N. Harrison et al., TIME TRENDS IN HUMAN DIETARY EXPOSURE TO PCDDS, PCDFS AND PCBS IN THEUK, Chemosphere (Oxford), 37(9-12), 1998, pp. 1657-1670
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Environmental Sciences
Journal title
Chemosphere (Oxford) → ACNP
ISSN journal
00456535
Volume
37
Issue
9-12
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1657 - 1670
Database
ISI
SICI code
0045-6535(1998)37:9-12<1657:TTIHDE>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Total Diet Study samples collected in 1982 and 1992 were analysed. Est imated dietary intakes of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs by UK consumers were f ound to have fallen substantially during this period and are now consi derably below the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI). Composite samples of h uman milk were also analysed for PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs. Estimated comb ined dietary intakes of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs by breast fed infants in 1993-94 via breast milk fell from 170 pg TEQ/kg bodyweight/day at 2 m onths to 39 pg TEQ/kg bodyweight/day at 10 months. Crown copyright (C) 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.