PMID- 19682531
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100301
LR  - 20091125
IS  - 1873-6351 (Electronic)
IS  - 0278-6915 (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 12
DP  - 2009 Dec
TI  - Harmonisation of food consumption data format for dietary exposure assessments of 
      chemicals analysed in raw agricultural commodities.
PG  - 2883-9
LID - 10.1016/j.fct.2009.08.003 [doi]
AB  - In this paper, we present an approach to format national food consumption data at 
      raw agricultural commodity (RAC) level. In this way, the data is both formatted 
      in a harmonised way given the comparability of RACs between countries, and 
      suitable to assess the dietary exposure to chemicals analysed in RACs at a 
      European level. In this approach, consumption data needs to be converted to 
      edible part of RAC (e-RAC) level using a RAC conversion database. To subsequently 
      use this data in exposure assessments, both e-RACs and RACs analysed in chemical 
      control programmes should be classified via a uniform system. Furthermore, 
      chemical concentrations in RACs may need to be converted to e-RAC level using 
      processing factors. To illustrate the use of this approach, we describe how the 
      Dutch RAC conversion database was used to convert consumption data of four 
      national consumption surveys to e-RAC level, and the use of the FAO/WHO Codex 
      Classification system of Foods and Animal Feeds to harmonise the classification. 
      We demonstrate that this approach works well for pesticides and glycoalkaloids, 
      and is an essential step forward in the harmonisation of risk assessment 
      procedures within Europe when addressing chemicals analysed in RACs by all 
      national food control systems.
FAU - Boon, Polly E
AU  - Boon PE
AD  - RIKILT - Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University and Research Centre, 
      P.O. Box 230, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands. polly.boon@wur.nl
FAU - Ruprich, Jiri
AU  - Ruprich J
FAU - Petersen, Annette
AU  - Petersen A
FAU - Moussavian, Shahnaz
AU  - Moussavian S
FAU - Debegnach, Francesca
AU  - Debegnach F
FAU - van Klaveren, Jacob D
AU  - van Klaveren JD
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20090812
PL  - England
TA  - Food Chem Toxicol
JT  - Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British 
      Industrial Biological Research Association
JID - 8207483
SB  - IM
MH  - Databases, Factual
MH  - *Diet Surveys
MH  - *Eating
MH  - Environmental Exposure/*analysis
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Netherlands
MH  - Risk Assessment/*methods
EDAT- 2009/08/18 09:00
MHDA- 2010/03/02 06:00
CRDT- 2009/08/18 09:00
PHST- 2008/07/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2009/07/30 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2009/08/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2009/08/18 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/08/18 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/03/02 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0278-6915(09)00381-0 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.fct.2009.08.003 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Food Chem Toxicol. 2009 Dec;47(12):2883-9. doi: 10.1016/j.fct.2009.08.003. Epub 
      2009 Aug 12.