Concentrations settings

Selection settings

Table 56 Selection settings for module Concentrations.
Name Description

Concentrations tier

Specifies the concentration data should be treated according to a pre-defined tier or custom.

Filter samples exceeding the concentration limits

If checked, samples with at least one substance concentration higher than some factor (concentration limit filter exceedance factor) times the MRL are filtered out.

Concentration limit filter exceedance factor

The multiplication factor for the concentration limit exceedance filter.

Use substance conversion rules

If checked, concentrations are modelled in terms of active substances (using substance conversion).

Substance conversion method

Allocation method for assigning active substance concentrations from measured substance concentrations based on substance translations.

Retain all allocated substances after active substance allocation

If checked, all allocated substances kept after substance conversion. Otherwise, the concentration data is restricted to the active substances of the assessment group.

Account for substance authorisations in substance conversions

Account for substance authorisations when allocating measured substances to active substance using substance conversions.

Use extrapolation rules

Use extrapolation rules to extrapolate food samples for foods with a limited amount of samples (data poor foods) from other foods (data rich foods).

Threshold for extrapolation

Threshold for extrapolation.

Restrict extrapolations to equal MRLs

Restrict extrapolations to equal MRLs.

Restrict extrapolations to authorised uses

Only extrapolate if substance use is authorised.

Impute water concentrations

Impute constant concentration values on the selected (water) commodity.

Water commodity

The commodity for which constant concentration values should be added.

Water concentration value (µg/kg)

Constant concentration value that should be used for water (in µg/kg).

Restrict water imputation to the five most toxic substances

Restrict water imputation to the five most toxic substances.

Restrict water imputation to authorised uses

Restrict water imputation to authorised uses.

Include focal commodity concentrations

Specifies whether there is monitoring data that should replace part of the consumption data for the specified focal commodities.

Focal commodity concentrations replacement method

Replacement method to be used for replacing base concentration data with concentration data of the focal commodity/commodities concentrations.

Focal commodity substance occurrence percentage

Anticipated occurrence percentage / agricultural use percentage of the focal commodity.

Adjustment factor for the focal food/substance concentration

Optional adjustment factor for the focal food/substance concentration. E.g., the expected ratio of mean monitoring concentration and mean field trial concentration.

Use deterministic substance conversions for focal commodity

Convert measured substance concentrations of focal commodity to active substance concentrations using deterministic substance conversion factors.

Modelled-foods subset: restrict to specific modelled-foods

If checked, then the assessment is restricted to the specified modelled foods.

Sample locations

The locations for which samples are filtered.

Sample years

The years for which samples are filtered.

Uncertainty settings

Table 57 Uncertainty settings for module Concentrations.
Name Description

Resample concentrations

Specifies whether concentrations are resampled by empirical bootstrap or using a parametric uncertainty model.