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Chromium in <strong>food</strong> and bottled <strong>water</strong><br />

Table 28: Table G3: Summary statistics of the chronic intake of Cr(III) (g/day) across European<br />

dietary surveys. Estimates were rounded up to one decimal place.<br />

Mean intake (g/day)<br />

Lower bound (LB)<br />

Upper bound (UB)<br />

Min Median Max Min Median Max<br />

Infants 12.3 - (a) 17.7 16.0 - (a) 29.1<br />

Toddlers 23.6 30.1 67.8 35.4 42.9 85.7<br />

Other children 40.2 54.3 85.4 53.1 71.2 106.5<br />

Adolescents 49.4 63.5 98.7 65.5 83.4 119.6<br />

Adults 54.1 60.9 86.5 74.5 83.8 112.6<br />

Elderly 47.3 57.3 77.0 72.6 77.1 99.3<br />

Very Elderly 49.4 59.3 78.4 68.7 79.2 99.7<br />

95 th percentile intake (b) (g/day)<br />

Lower bound (LB)<br />

Upper bound (UB)<br />

Min Median Max Min Median Max<br />

Infants 41.0 - (b) - (b) 74.4 - (b) - (b)<br />

Toddlers 37.6 48.5 82.1 51.8 71.7 122.1<br />

Other children 65.0 93.3 164.4 84.3 114.9 179.0<br />

Adolescents 75.4 116.4 182.6 94.0 141.4 212.7<br />

Adults 86.2 107.3 144.7 117.5 140.3 190.2<br />

Elderly 78.2 95.6 111.2 110.3 126.6 140.8<br />

Very Elderly 75.7 103.3 111.2 106.0 126.4 139.2<br />

(a): Details on the dietary surveys and the number of subjects are given in Appendix F.<br />

(b): 95 th percentile calculated over a number of observations lower than 60 require cautious interpretation as the results<br />

may not be statistically robust (EFSA, 2011b).<br />

EFSA Journal 2014;12(3):3595 184

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