Cancer risk assessment of ethyl carbamate in alcoholic beverages from Brazil with special consideration to the spirits cachaça and tiquira

Table 3 Ethyl carbamate occurrence in European-style alcoholic beverages from large international samplings (data from EFSA [4])

	Ethyl carbamate [mg/l]
Type of beverage	Mean	Median	95^th percentile
Beer	0.005	0.005	0.006
Wine	0.007	0.005	0.078
Spirits (excluding fruit spirits)	0.094	0.022	0.390
- Whisky	0.040	0.030	0.106
- Rum	0.017	0.012	0.045
- Vodka	0.008	0.005	0.017
- Brandy	0.078	0.045	0.345

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