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Table 5 Exposure with ethyl carbamate from alcoholic beverages in Brazil.

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

 

Scenario 1 for cachaça all types without weighting

Scenario 2 for cachaça all types with weighting

Hypothetical scenario 3 for regulated cachaça (including regulated unrecorded cachaça)

EC exposure

Mean

Median

95th percentile

Mean

Median

95th percentile

Mean

Median

95th percentile

Beer

17.3

17.3

20.8

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Wine

0.77

0.55

8.61

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Cachaça

59.0

29.5

208.0

69.9

43.5

239.1

17.1

23.3

23.3

Whisky

0.82

0.62

2.18

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Rum

0.19

0.14

0.51

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Vodka

0.19

0.12

0.41

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Brandy

1.51

0.87

6.70

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Other

0.32

0.08

1.34

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Tiquira

0.80

0.59

2.09

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Unrecorded

130.1

71.9

452.1

(similar to scenario 1)

37.7

51.4

51.4

Total alcohol

211.1

121.7

702.7

221.9

135.7

733.7

76.7

94.9

117.3

Total plus other foodsa

227.8

138.4

719.4

238.6

152.4

750.4

93.4

111.6

134.0

  1. Calculated as ng/kg bw/day (calculated for a 60 kg person)
  2. a an exposure of 16.7 ng/kg bw/day is assumed for other foods by EFSA based on an international JECFA estimate, see [4, 5] for details.