Congener profile, occurrence and estimated dietary intake of dioxins and dioxin-like PCBs in foods marketed in the Region of Valencia (Spain)

Occurrence and Dietary Intake of Polychlorinated Dibenzo-p-dioxins and Dibenzofurans in Malaysia

“…In Spain, similar concentration range of PCDD/F for meat and meat products (mean 0.05 pg TEQ g -1 product for poultry and mean 0.18 pg TEQ g -1 product for beef) was found by Marin et al (2011). For fish and seafood samples, the PCDD/F levels detected in this study were lower than most of the findings reported by other researches (Storelli et al 2011;Godliauskien_ e et al 2012;Zacs et al 2013).…”

Dietary exposure to non-dioxin-like PCBs of different population groups in Austria

“…Assuming that the sum of the so called indicator PCBs (R 6 PCBs;PCB 28,52,101,138,153,and 180) represents about 50% of all PCB congeners in food, a TDI of 10 ng kg À1 bw d À1 was initially proposed by the WHO at the ''2nd PCB workshop '' in Brno (Czech Republic, May 2002), but has already been used as a reference value by others (RIVM, 2001;AFFSA, 2007;VKM, 2008). Many studies have reported dietary exposure to PCDD/Fs and dl-PBCs or PCBs in general (Arisawa et al, 2008;Windal et al, 2010;Kilic et al, 2011;Marin et al, 2011;Song et al, 2011;Tornkvist et al, 2011;Perello et al, 2012;Sirot et al, 2012), however, only a few focussed on the exposure assessment to ndl-PCBs. Dietary intake estimates to ndl-PCBs were published in France (Arnich et al, 2009), Belgium (Cimenci et al, 2013), Italy (Fattore et al, 2008), Norway (VKM, 2008 and Germany (Fromme et al, 2009).…”

Health Risk from Exposure to PCDD/Fs from a Waelz Plant in Central Taiwan

“…reported that the median serum dioxin-like chemical concentrations (including those of 17 PCDD/Fs and 9 PCBs) for 2361 American subjects aged 40 or older was 19.2 WHO 2005 -TEQpg/g lipid. According to many studies of concentrations of dioxin-like in foodstuffs, the contribution of PCDD/Fs and dioxin-like PCBs to WHO-TEQ varied (Marin et al, 2011;Storell et al, 2011;Wei et al, 2011;Chang et al, 2012;Zhang et al, 2013). Therefore, one cannot compare this study's analytical results with those for American populations because of the different components in TEQ.…”

“…Chang et al (2012) measured the dietary intake of PCDD/Fs and dl-PCBs from fresh foods and estimated it at 0.33 pg WHO-TEQ/kg bw/day for males and 0.31 pg WHO-TEQ/kg bw/day for females. Marin et al (2011) estimated the dietary intake of dioxins and dl-PCBs in Spain at 2.86 pg WHO-TEQ/kg bw/day for adults, higher than those estimated in Taiwan. In summary, the installation of APCDs in the Waelz plant reduced emissions of PCDD/Fs.…”