Dietary Exposure of Thais to Pesticides During 1989–1996

Abstract To monitor the exposure of the Thai to pesticide residues in foods, the intake of pesticides based on the total diet approach has been studied in Thailand continually since 1989. Food items were chosen and their proportions of daily consumption were calculated from the national food consumption survey conducted by the Department of Health in 1986. Seventy-seven items of food including drinking water were classified into 12 groups according to their sources of contamination and the analytical methods used. Shopping lists and standard procedures for collecting samples and cooking were developed. Twelve food composites from each of the 4 regions were analyzed for nearly 100 pesticides. All analyses used multiresidue analytical methods, and the total daily dietary intakes of pesticide residues were estimated from the average amount of food consumed by Thais. Among 24 pesticides found in the 8 year study, DDT, dimethoate, methamidophos, and parathion methyl were found every year. However, dietary intakes of all pesticides were far below the established acceptable daily intake. In 1999, the study methodology was redesigned to accommodate the new national food consumption survey data.

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Dietary exposure to PCBs based on food consumption survey and food basket analysis at Taizhou, China – The World’s major site for recycling transformers

Chemosphere ◽

10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.09.032 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 81 (10) ◽

pp. 1239-1244 ◽

Cited By ~ 48

Author(s):

Guan Hua Xing ◽

Sheng Chun Wu ◽

Ming Hung Wong

Keyword(s):

Food Consumption ◽

Dietary Exposure ◽

Major Site ◽

Food Consumption Survey ◽

Food Basket ◽

Consumption Survey

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Exposure assessment of adult consumers in Serbia, Greece and Croatia to deoxynivalenol and zearalenone through consumption of major wheat-based products

World Mycotoxin Journal ◽

10.3920/wmj2019.2452 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 431-442 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

I. Djekic ◽

B. Udovicki ◽

J.G. Kljusurić ◽

M. Papageorgiou ◽

J. Jovanovic ◽

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Keyword(s):

Monte Carlo ◽

Exposure Assessment ◽

Food Consumption ◽

Adult Population ◽

Monte Carlo Analysis ◽

Greek Population ◽

Dietary Intakes ◽

Food Consumption Survey ◽

Consumption Survey

The main objective of this research was to perform an exposure assessment of mycotoxin intake through consumption of wheat-based products in Serbia, Croatia, and Greece by estimating deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEA) exposure from wheat. Food consumption survey of wheat-based products has been performed during 2017 in the three countries with at least 1000 interviewees per country. Values for the concentration of DON and ZEA were extracted from available research published in this decade. Finally, a Monte Carlo analysis of 100,000 simulations was performed to estimate the intake of DON and ZEA from consumption of wheat-based products. Results revealed that the estimated daily wheat-borne intake of DON of the adult population in Croatia was 0.121 μg/kg bw/day, followed by Greece with 0.181 μg/kg bw/day and Serbia with 0.262 μg/kg bw/day. This shows that 0.25% of Croatian, 1.19% of Greek and 3.96% of Serbian adult population is exposed to higher daily dietary intakes of DON than recommended. Estimated daily wheat-borne intake of ZEA was 0.017 μg/kg bw/day in Greece, 0.026 μg/kg bw/day in Croatia and 0.050 μg/kg bw/day in Serbia. Higher intake of ZEA is associated with 0.62% of the Greek population, followed by 0.95% Croatian and 2.25% of Serbian citizens. This type of research is helpful to assess accurately the risk by DON/ZEA intake associated with the consumption of wheat-based products by consumers in these three countries. Distributions of potential mycotoxin intakes were highly right-skewed.

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