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

Table 4 Annual per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages in Brazil

Type of beverage	Annual per capita consumption [Litres of pure alcohol]^a	Distribution in spirits category according to national survey^b	Distribution in spirits category, own estimation^c	Annual per capita consumption of spirits, own estimation [Litres of pure alcohol]^d
Beer	3.41
Wine	0.29
Spirits all	2.06
- Cachaça	(no data)	66%	66%	1.36
- Whisky	(no data)	24%	8.9%	0.18
- Rum	(no data)	13%	4.8%	0.10
- Vodka	(no data)	28%	10.3%	0.21
- Brandy	(no data)	23%	8.5%	0.17
- Other	(no data)	4%	1.5%	0.03
- Tiquira	(no data)	(no data)	(less than 1%)	0.003
Unrecorded	3.00

^a Data from WHO GISAH for 2003 for population older than 15 [33]
^b Data from a national survey on types of spirits consumed in the previous year [37]. The total is not 100% because of overlapping.
^c Estimation was necessary to come to a total 100%. This was conducted on the basis of a 66% cachaça consumption. The rest of 34% was distributed according to the percentages from the national survey [37].
^d Calculated from the total spirits consumption of 2.06 l according to WHO GISAH [33] using the estimated distribution. The estimation for tiquira was based on annual consumption of 640.000 l from IBGE [38].

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