Chronic Dietary Exposure to Total Arsenic, Inorganic Arsenic and Water-Soluble Organic Arsenic Species Based on Results of the First German Total Diet Study

Autor: Christin, Hackethal, Ulrike, Pabel, Christian, Jung, Tanja, Schwerdtle, Oliver, Lindtner
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4208083
Popis: For risk assessment purposes, the dietary exposure to total arsenic and inorganic arsenic was estimated within the first German total diet study (BfR MEAL Study) for the whole population in Germany. Therefore, occurrence data of 356 different foods from the BfR MEAL Study were combined with consumption data from German nutrition surveys. Due to the different toxicological potentials of other water-soluble organic arsenic species present in rice-based foods, fish and seafood, dietary exposure to dimethylarsinic acid, monomethylarsonic acid and arsenobetaine was assessed in consumers in Germany through such foods for the first time. Related to the bodyweight, dietary exposure to total arsenic and inorganic arsenic in infants and young children (0.5-5 years) were higher than in adolescents/adults (≥14 years). The highest median exposure estimates to inorganic arsenic resulted for the age group of infants from 0.5 to1 year under modified lower bound conditions and for young children from 1 to2 years under upper bound conditions (0.17 μg kg
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