Journal
RISK ANALYSIS
Volume 30, Issue 3, Pages 473-487Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2009.01345.x
Keywords
Bisphenol A; consumer exposure; polycarbonate baby bottles; risk management; total exposure
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- German Environmental Survey for Children (GerES IV)
- Carla Ng (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
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We investigated the relative contributions of the pathways known to be most relevant for nine different consumer groups. Our results suggest that the most important pathways for infants and children are the use of polycarbonate (PC) baby bottles and for adults and teenagers the consumption of canned food. Dental surgery can also considerably contribute over a short time directly after the surgery. For infants fed with PC baby bottles with mean dose rates of 0.8 mu g/kg(bw)/d the highest exposure dose rate was calculated. This dose rate is far below the tolerable daily intake of 50 mu g/kg(bw)/d. However, it is of the same order of magnitude as recently reported concentrations that caused low-dose health effects in rodents. We find a pattern of falling exposure levels with rising age that is supported by urinary concentrations of BPA available for selected consumer groups. Similarly, the exposure levels we predict are confirmed by the levels reported in these studies.
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