Dietary intake of PCDD/F by small children with different food consumptionmeasured by the duplicate method

Citation
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
Citations number
6
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Environment/Ecology
Journal title
CHEMOSPHERE
ISSN journal
0045-6535 → ACNP
Volume
43
Issue
4-7
Year of publication
2001
Pages
881 - 887
Database
ISI
SICI code
0045-6535(200105/06)43:4-7<881:DIOPBS>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
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 rights reserved.