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Table 7 Lifetime cancer risk of ethyl carbamate in different whole population exposure scenarios.

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

2.7E-05

2.7E-05

3.2E-05

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Wine

1.2E-06

8.6E-07

1.3E-05

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Cachaça

9.2E-05

4.6E-05

3.3E-04

1.1E-04

6.8E-05

3.7E-04

2.7E-05

3.6E-05

3.6E-05

Whisky

1.3E-06

9.6E-07

3.4E-06

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Rum

3.0E-07

2.1E-07

8.0E-07

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Vodka

3.0E-07

1.9E-07

6.4E-07

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Brandy

2.4E-06

1.4E-06

1.0E-05

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Other

5.0E-07

1.2E-07

2.1E-06

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Tiquira

1.3E-06

9.2E-07

3.3E-06

(similar to scenario 1)

(similar to scenario 1)

Unrecorded

2.0E-04

1.1E-04

7.1E-04

(similar to scenario 1)

5.9E-05

8.0E-05

8.0E-05

Total alcohol

3.3E-04

1.9E-04

1.1E-03

3.5E-04

2.1E-04

1.1E-03

1.2E-04

1.5E-04

1.8E-04

Total plus other foods

3.6E-04

2.2E-04

1.1E-03

3.7E-04

2.4E-04

1.2E-03

1.5E-04

1.7E-04

2.1E-04

  1. Calculated with HT25 of of 0.16 mg/kg bw/day (Lifetime cancer risk = Exposure/HT25·0.25).