Progressive Risk Assessment of Polychlorinated Biphenyls through a Total Diet Study in the Korean Population

Human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from foods was investigated through a Total Diet Study (TDS) for the first time in Korea. A representative food list was developed from food intake data. Non-selected foods were also included in the TDS through the mapping process to anticipate prac...

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Published in:Environmental Pollution
Main Authors: Shin, ES, Nguyen, KH, Kim, J, Kim, CI, Chang, YS
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2015
Subjects:
DIOXIN-LIKE PCBS
FARMED ATLANTIC SALMON
COPLANAR PCBS
VEGETABLE-OIL
FISH-OIL
EXPOSURE
COOKING
PCDDS
PCDFS
BEEF
Total Diet Study
PCBs
Foodstuffs
Risk assessment
Korea
Atlantic salmon
Online Access:https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/35812
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.ENVPOL.2015.08.051
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Summary:Human exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) from foods was investigated through a Total Diet Study (TDS) for the first time in Korea. A representative food list was developed from food intake data. Non-selected foods were also included in the TDS through the mapping process to anticipate practical risk assessment. For better representativeness, data (2008-2011) from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES) were combined with the TDS data set. And also, we estimated the dietary exposure to PCBs from various food items using a best-fit' mapping process and assessed the differences in PCB exposures by sex and age. In this study, we examined total PCBs (62 congeners) including dioxin-like PCBs (DL-PCBs) and indicator PCBs, which are congeners that are mainly detected in various environmental matrices. The average dietary exposure (3.94 ng/kg body weight/day) that was estimated through food intake was 19.7% of the World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 1 1 9 6 scie scopus

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