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: Exposures

Calculation of dietary exposures

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

Inputs used: Consumptions by food as measured 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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