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Chromium in food and bottled water
Table G2: Mean and 95 th percentile (P95) chronic exposure to Cr(VI) (ng/kg b.w. per day) through the consumption of water intended for human
consumption and mineral waters for total population in lower-bound (LB) and upper-bound (UB) scenario.
Range of chronic exposure (LB – UB) (ng/kg b.w. per day)
Code (a)
Infants Toddlers Other children Adolescents Adults Elderly Very elderly
Mean P95 Mean P95 Mean P95 Mean P95 Mean P95 Mean P95 Mean P95
BE/1 4.7-26.1 15.9-79.1 5.2-27.9 16.2-79.0 3.9-21.6 13.0-62.7 3.3-18.4 10.5-51.8
BE/2 8.5-34.8 - (b) 9.5-39.9 28.4-111.7
BG 14.1-106.2 49.8-320.2 7.5-56.6 27.0-145.0 7.2-52.0 21.7-150.9
CY 0.01-0.02 (c) 0.0-0.0 (c)
CZ 8.5-56.3 23.5-130.7 7.4-44.2 20.7-97.2 7.7-43.7 19.7-90.8
DE/1 30.4-84.4 103.1-186.6 11.8-57.1 34.4-128.9
DE/2 37.5-96.6 104.1-194.1 12.4-56.1 32.6-125.8
DE/3 30.4-89.0 99.6-239.3 13.6-60.8 33.9-133.7
DE/4 10.2-39.3 29.7-110.3 10.9-42.4 29.3-108.3 8.4-33.4 24.1-89.8 7.4-29.9 21.0-76.4
DK 3.3-38.1 6.9-78.5 2.3-25.6 5.4-61.3 2.3-25.5 5.9-66.9 1.9-21.0 4.8-55.1 1.3-15.3 - (b)
EL 0.03-0.04 (c) 0.0-0.0 (c)
ES/1 1.4-15.8 4.7-50.8
ES/2 1.5-16.8 4.0-46.4 1.4-16.1 4.3-49.1
ES/3 6.1-48.4 23.5-106.1 3.7-31.0 11.1-64.0
ES/4 8.2-60.2 - (b) 6.7-43.7 22.2-126.1 2.8-22.7 9.3-64.1
FI/1 8.2-94.2 16.1-184.2 3.2-37.0 7.0-80.3
FI/2 2.2-24.8 5.4-60.2 2.0-23.2 4.9-56.2
FI/3 0.7-7.4 2.8-28.1
FR 7.9-49.5 20.2-99.1 4.3-27.7 12.0-67.3 4.9-30.5 14.3-77.9 4.8-29.8 13.0-65.3 5.6-33.0 17.0-87.4
HU 1.7-6.5 (c) 8.3-31.0 (c) 1.4-5.3 (c) 6.6-24.6 (c) 1.0-3.7 (c) 5.1-18.8 (c)
IE 8.5-9.5 29.0-32.3
IT 33.2-159.1 - (b) 15.2-82.2 - (b) 10.3-56.5 22.8-113.6 6.4-34.5 14.1-73.1 5.4-28.3 13.7-64.5 4.1-23.4 10.2-50.7 4.8-26.2 10.6-51.5
LV 1.6-7.2 (c) 8.6-39.5 (c) 1.2-5.2 (c) 5.0-20.5 (c) 0.8-3.9 (c) 3.9-18.4 (c)
NL/1 1.6-13.2 5.9-49.1
NL/2 39.6-44.7 113.3-126.5 26.6-30.3 76.0-86.6
SE/1 1.9-15.9 6.3-48.5
SE/2 1.1-12.1 3.8-37.4 0.9-8.8 2.9-28.5
UK 8.9-18.0 28.8-49.5
b.w.: body weight; P95: 95 th percentile; BE: Belgium; BG: Bulgaria; CY: Cyprus; CZ: the Czech Republic; DE: Germany; DK: Denmark; EL: Greece; ES: Spain; FI: Finland; FR: France; HU:
Hungary; IE: Ireland; IT: Italy; LV: Latvia; NL: the Netherlands; SE: Sweden; UK: the United Kingdom.
(a): Details on the dietary surveys and the number of subjects are given in Table 4.
(b): 95 th percentile calculated over a number of observations lower than 60 require cautious interpretation as the results may not be statistically robust (EFSA, 2011b).
(c): Dietary surveys where consumers of drinking water were less than 50 % of the total number of participants.
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