title: Determination of dietary tin intake in an adult French citizen.
abstract: The tin contents in fresh food or in food stored in lacquered or unlacquered cans were determined in order to estimate the daily tin intake in a French citizen. Tin levels were 76.6 +/- 36.5 mg/kg in foods preserved in unlacquered cans, 3.2 +/- 2.3 mg/kg in foods stored in lacquered cans, and 0.03 +/- 0.03 mg/kg in fresh foods. Tin intake is essentially dependent on food stored in tin cans (98%), which only represents 5.6% of the total daily consumption of foods by a French citizen. The estimated tin intake (2.7 mg/day whether 0. 04 mg/kg of body weight) remains widely inferior to the daily tolerable dose in humans (2 mg/kg of body weight).
authors.affiliation: INSERM U420/Laboratoire d'Hygiène et de Recherche en Santé Publique, University of Nancy I, 40 rue Lionnois, 54000 Nancy, France.
authors.forename: G H
authors.initials: GH
authors.lastname: Biégo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Joyeux
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hartemann
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Debry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004032:Diet; D005506:Food Contamination; D018857:Food Packaging; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D014001:Tin
chemical_list: D014001:Tin