16.04.2014 Views

efsa-opinion-chromium-food-drinking-water

efsa-opinion-chromium-food-drinking-water

efsa-opinion-chromium-food-drinking-water

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

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

a) Result of PROAST for all models<br />

Weibull Model, with BMR of 10% Extra Risk for the BMD and 0.95 Lower Confidence Limit for the BMDL<br />

0.3<br />

Weibull<br />

BMD Lower Bound<br />

0.25<br />

Fraction Affected<br />

0.2<br />

0.15<br />

0.1<br />

0.05<br />

0<br />

17:41 01/20 2014<br />

BMDL<br />

BMD<br />

0 2 4 6 8 10 12<br />

dose<br />

b) Result of BMDS when pooling the data of males and female for the Weibull model used to<br />

illustrate the data since the log-probit model failed to get fitted with BMDS software<br />

Figure J12: Fit of all models to the dose-response data on the incidence of squamous cell carcinoma or<br />

papilloma in oral mucosa or tongue in rats. Note that the models denoted LVM E2 and H3 are not<br />

recommended by EFSA (2009c).<br />

EFSA Journal 2014;12(3):3595 242

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!