Chronic cumulative exposure assessment PA

This standard action is of type: Risks

In 2017 EFSA published a statement Risks for human health related to the presence of pyrrolizidine alkaloids in honey, tea, herbal infusions and food supplements, see [EFSA, 2017b]. Occurrence data used in this opinion was published in 2015 in the external scientific report Occurrence of Pyrrolizidine Alkaloids in food, see [Mulder et al., 2015]. The occurrence data in tea and herbal infusions is linked to the Consumption of 6 different population groups of the DNFCS 2012-2016. An lower bound (LB) and upper bound (UB) chronic cumulative exposure assessment can be calculated for different PAs. One scenario is assuming equipotency, another scenario is using provisional RPFs [Merz et al., 2016].