Dietary exposures

Dietary exposures are the amounts of substances, expressed per kg bodyweight or per individual, to which individuals in a population are exposed from their diet per day. Depending on the exposure type, dietary exposures can be short-term/acute exposures and then contain exposures for individual-days, or they can be long-term/chronic exposures, in which case they represent the average exposure per day over an unspecified longer time period.

This module has as primary entities: Populations Foods Substances Effects

Output of this module is used by: Internal exposures Exposure mixtures Risks

Calculation of dietary exposures

Dietary exposures are calculated from consumptions per modelled food and concentration models. Optionally, also processing factors and unit variability models are applied.

Inputs used: Consumptions by modelled food Concentration models Processing factors Unit variability factors High exposure food-substance combinations Active substances Occurrence patterns Relative potency factors Food conversions Concentration distributions

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