Total diet study on pesticide residues in France: Levels in food as consumed and chronic dietary risk to consumers
| Autor: | Frédéric Hommet, A. Fastier, Joëlle Baylé, Véronique Sirot, Jean-Charles Leblanc, Ali Kadar, Eric Truchot, Claude Vergnet, Alexandre Nougadère, Philippe Gros |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Male Insecticides Acceptable daily intake Adolescent Heptachlor Population Food Contamination Biology Risk Assessment Toxicology Beverages chemistry.chemical_compound Vegetables Humans Pesticides education Child lcsh:Environmental sciences General Environmental Science lcsh:GE1-350 education.field_of_study Pesticide residue business.industry Organothiophosphates Pesticide Residues Organothiophosphorus Compounds Pesticide Food safety Food Analysis Diet chemistry Food Environmental chemistry Child Preschool Fruit Endrin Benzimidazoles Environmental Pollutants Female Carbamates Chlorpyrifos France business |
| Zdroj: | Environment International, Vol 45, Iss, Pp 135-150 (2012) |
| ISSN: | 0160-4120 |
| Popis: | Chronic dietary exposure to pesticide residues was assessed for the French population using a total diet study (TDS) to take into account realistic levels in foods as consumed at home (table-ready). Three hundred and twenty-five pesticides and their transformation products, grouped into 283 pesticides according to their residue definition, were sought in 1235 composite samples corresponding to 194 individual food items that cover 90% of the adult and child diet. To make up the composite samples, about 19,000 food products were bought during different seasons from 2007 to 2009 in 36 French cities and prepared according to the food preparation practices recorded in the individual and national consumption survey (INCA2). The results showed that 37% of the samples contained one or more residues. Seventy-three pesticides were detected and 55 quantified at levels ranging from 0.003 to 8.7 mg/kg. The most frequently detected pesticides, identified as monitoring priorities in 2006, were the post-harvest insecticides pirimiphos-methyl and chlorpyrifos-methyl—particularly in wheat-based products—together with chlorpyrifos, iprodione, carbendazim and imazalil, mainly in fruit and fruit juices. Dietary intakes were estimated for each subject of INCA2 survey, under two contamination scenarios to handle left-censored data: lower-bound scenario (LB) where undetected results were set to zero, and upper-bound (UB) scenario where undetected results were set to the detection limit. For 90% of the pesticides, exposure levels were below the acceptable daily intake (ADI) under the two scenarios. Under the LB scenario, which tends to underestimate exposure levels, only dimethoate intakes exceeded the ADI for high level consumers of cherry (0.6% of children and 0.4% of adults). This pesticide, authorised in Europe, and its metabolite were detected in both cherries and endives. Under the UB scenario, that overestimates exposure, a chronic risk could not be excluded for nine other pesticides (dithiocarbamates, ethoprophos, carbofuran, diazinon, methamidophos, disulfoton, dieldrin, endrin and heptachlor). For these pesticides, more sensitive analyses of the main food contributors are needed in order to refine exposure assessment. Keywords: Pesticide residues, Food safety, Total diet study, Estimated dietary intake, Risk assessment, France |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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