title: Dietary intake of organotin compounds in Finland: a market-basket study.
abstract: The objective of this study was to estimate the intake of organic tin compounds from foodstuffs in a Finnish market basket. The study was conducted by collecting 13 market baskets from supermarkets and market places in the city of Kuopio, eastern Finland. Altogether 115 different food items were bought. In each basket, foodstuffs were mixed in proportion to their consumption and analysed by GC/MS for seven organic tin compounds (mono-, di-, and tributyltin, mono-, di-, and triphenyltin, and dioctyltin). Organotin compounds were detected in only four baskets, with the fish basket containing the largest number of different organotins. The European Food Safety Authority has established a tolerable daily intake of 250 ng kg(-1) body weight for the sum of dibutyltin, tributyltin, triphenyltin and dioctyltin. According to this study, the daily intake of these compounds was 2.47 ng kg(-1) body weight, of which 81% originated from the fish basket. This exposure is only 1% of the tolerable daily intake and poses negligible risk to the average consumer. However, for consumers eating large quantities of fish from contaminated areas, the intake may be much higher.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health, National Public Health Institute, P.O. Box 95, FI-70701, Kuopio, Finland. panu.rantakokko@ktl.fi
authors.forename: Panu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rantakokko
authors.forename: Tiina
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuningas
authors.forename: Katri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Saastamoinen
authors.forename: Terttu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Vartiainen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004032:Diet; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D005387:Finland; D005399:Fishes; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009947:Organotin Compounds / Q000008:administration & dosage* / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants; D009947:Organotin Compounds