Prioritisation of pesticides and target organ systems for dietary cumulative risk assessment based on the 2019-2021 monitoring cycle.

ABSTRACT: Aiming at accelerating the implementation of cumulative risk assessment to pesticide residues, this report describes a two-step prioritisation analysis, on individual pesticides and on target organ systems, that allows to identify (i) low-priority substances expected to have a marginal contribution to cumulative risk, and (ii) high priority organ systems to be addressed in future cumulative risk assessments. The analysis encompassed 350 substances and 36 raw primary commodities of plant origin surveyed in the monitoring cycle 2019-2021, carried out in 30 population groups, covering 3 age classes, and 17 EU countries. Probabilistic exposure calculations, for chronic and acute effects, were executed on the occurrence and consumption data by a two-dimensional procedure, modelling variability

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10851089 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature