efsa-opinion-chromium-food-drinking-water

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Number of samples
Chromium in food and drinking water
The final food dataset includes 24 629 results, which are shown grouped by sampling country in
Figure 5 and by year of analysis in Figure 6. Most of the foods were sampled in Germany (77.5 %)
and, within these samples, 73.8 % also reported Germany as the country of origin of the food.
Samples were collected in a total of 10 different countries. All analytical results were expressed as
whole weight.
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Figure 5: Distribution of food samples analysed for chromium across different European countries.
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Figure 6: Distribution of food samples analysed for chromium over the sampling years.
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