J. Wittsiepe et al., Dietary intake of PCDD/F by small children with different food consumptionmeasured by the duplicate method, CHEMOSPHERE, 43(4-7), 2001, pp. 881-887
The dietary intake of PCDD/F by 42 small children, 21 boys and 21 girls in
the age range 14-47 months, with different food consumption behaviour livin
g in urban and rural areas of Germany was measured by the duplicate method
with a 7 day sampling period from May to September 1998. The PCDD/F-levels
in the food duplicates were in the range 39.2-325 fg I-TEq/g(dry weight) (m
edian: 90.7; arithmetic mean: 96.6) and the doses were in the range 0.681-5
.43 with a median of 1.56 and an arithmetic mean (AM) of 1.60 pg I-TEq/(kg(
body weight).d). Children living in an urban industrialized area with food
consumption including products from the family owned vegetable gardens or t
he surrounding area and/or products from domestic animals showed no statist
ically significant different concentrations in the food duplicates or in th
e dietary intake of PCDD/F, calculated as I-TEq, than children living in a
rural area with similar food consumption behavior or than children consumin
g exclusively food from the supermarket. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All
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