Risk assessment of the cumulative acute exposure of Hungarian population to organophosphorus pesticide residues with regard to consumers of plant based foods

Food Chem Toxicol. 2016 Mar:89:67-72. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2016.01.016. Epub 2016 Jan 22.

Abstract

Based on the Hungarian pesticide residues monitoring data of the last five years and the consumption data collected within a 3-day dietary record survey in 2009 (more than 2 million pesticide residue results and almost 5000, 0-101-year-old consumers 3 non-consecutive-day personal fruit and vegetable consumption data), the cumulative acute exposure of organophosphorus pesticide residues was evaluated. The relative potency factor approach was applied, with acephate chosen as index compound. According to our conservative calculation method, applying the measured residues only, the 99.95% of the 99th percentiles of calculated daily intakes was at or below 87 μg/kgbwday, indicating that the cumulative acute exposure of the whole Hungarian population (including all age classes) to organophosphorus compounds was not a health concern.

Keywords: Cumulative acute exposure; Effect of LOQ and zero residues; Organophosphorus pesticides; Probabilistic method.

MeSH terms

  • Diet*
  • Environmental Exposure*
  • Food Contamination*
  • Humans
  • Hungary
  • Organophosphorus Compounds / analysis
  • Organophosphorus Compounds / toxicity*
  • Pesticide Residues / analysis
  • Pesticide Residues / toxicity*
  • Plants / chemistry*
  • Risk Assessment

Substances

  • Organophosphorus Compounds
  • Pesticide Residues