title: Risk assessment of the cumulative acute exposure of Hungarian population to organophosphorus pesticide residues with regard to consumers of plant based foods.
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.
authors.affiliation: National Food Chain Safety Office, Kitaibel Pál str 4, Budapest, 1024, Hungary. Electronic address: zentaia@nebih.gov.hu.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zentai
authors.affiliation: National Food Chain Safety Office, Kitaibel Pál str 4, Budapest, 1024, Hungary.
authors.forename: István J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Szabó
authors.affiliation: FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, Benczur str 34, Budapest, 1068 Hungary.
authors.forename: Kata
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kerekes
authors.affiliation: National Food Chain Safety Office, Kitaibel Pál str 4, Budapest, 1024, Hungary.
authors.forename: Árpád
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Ambrus
mesh_terms: D004032:Diet; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005506:Food Contamination; D006801:Humans; D006814:Hungary; D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds / Q000032:analysis / Q000633:toxicity*; D010573:Pesticide Residues / Q000032:analysis / Q000633:toxicity*; D010944:Plants / Q000737:chemistry*; D018570:Risk Assessment
chemical_list: D009943:Organophosphorus Compounds; D010573:Pesticide Residues
keywords: Cumulative acute exposure; Effect of LOQ and zero residues; Organophosphorus pesticides; Probabilistic method