Cumulative dietary exposure assessment of pesticides that have chronic effects on the thyroid using SAS® software.

ABSTRACT: Retrospective dietary exposure assessments were conducted for two groups of pesticides that have chronic effects on the thyroid: hypertrophy, hyperplasia and neoplasia of C-cells, and hypothyroidism. The pesticides considered in this assessment were identified and characterised in the scientific report on the establishment of cumulative assessment groups of pesticides for their effects on the thyroid. The exposure assessments used monitoring data collected by Member States under their official pesticide monitoring programmes in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and individual food consumption data from 10 populations of consumers from different countries and from different age groups. Exposure estimates were obtained for each group of pesticides by means of a 2-dimensional probabilistic model, which wa

SUBMITTER: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7009042 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature