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

Table H5: Repeated dose toxicity studies with Cr(VI) compounds (continued)<br />

Study* NOAEL LOAEL Effect Reference<br />

22-week study<br />

- 25 mg Liver: degeneration with reticular arrangement of hepatocytes, Chopra et al. (1996)<br />

0, 0.8 mg Cr(VI)/kg b.w. per day (c) day<br />

Female Wistar rats<br />

Oral (<strong>drinking</strong> <strong>water</strong>)<br />

0 and 25 mg potassium dichromate/L<br />

corresponding to 0, 8.8 mg Cr(VI)/L<br />

Doses:<br />

potassium<br />

dichromate<br />

/L<br />

0.8 mg<br />

Cr(VI)/kg<br />

b.w. per<br />

increased sinusoidal space, vacuoation and necrosis, increase serum<br />

AST and ALT, decreased level glycogen.<br />

Kidney: diffused glomerulus, degeneration of basement membrane<br />

in Bowman’s capsule, renal tubular epithelial degeneration.<br />

Decreased serum cholesterol, increased serum triglycerides and<br />

glucose levels.<br />

22-week study<br />

Male Wistar rats<br />

Oral (<strong>drinking</strong> <strong>water</strong>)<br />

0, 25 mg potassium dichromate/L<br />

corresponding to 0, 8.8 mg Cr(VI)/L<br />

Doses:<br />

0, 0.8 mg Cr(VI)/kg b.w. per day (c) - 25 mg<br />

potassium<br />

dichromate<br />

/L<br />

0.8 mg<br />

Cr(VI)/kg<br />

b.w. per<br />

Decrease serum succinate dehydrogenase.<br />

Liver: degeneration, vacuolation, increased sinusoidal space and<br />

necrosis, increase serum AST and ALT, decresed levels triglycerides<br />

and glycogen, increased levels cholesterol.<br />

Kidney: vacuolation in glomeruli, degeneration of basement<br />

membrane in Bowman’s capsule, renal tubular epithelial<br />

degeneration.<br />

Acharya et al. (2001)<br />

day<br />

6-month study<br />

Wistar rats<br />

Oral (<strong>drinking</strong> <strong>water</strong>)<br />

0, 25 mg potassium dichromate/L<br />

Doses:<br />

M: 1.79 mg Cr(VI)/kg b.w. per day (a)<br />

F: 2.11 mg Cr(VI)/kg b.w. per day (a) - 25 mg<br />

potassium<br />

dichromate<br />

/L<br />

1.79 mg<br />

Cr(VI)/kg<br />

b.w. per<br />

day<br />

No effect on b.w. gain.<br />

Increased urinary excretion of albumin (marker of glomerular<br />

dysfunction) and β2-microglobulin (marker of tubular dysfunction)<br />

in F rats.<br />

No similar nephrotoxic effects observed in male rats.<br />

Vyskocil et al. (1993)<br />

EFSA Journal 2014;12(3):3595 200

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