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Table 5 Percentiles of distribution for dietary intake of Ops residues from tea infusion for tea consumers only in China

From: Estimated assessment of cumulative dietary exposure to organophosphorus residues from tea infusion in China

Percentiles of exposure

OPsa (μg/kg bw/d)

OPsb (μg/kg bw/d)

Tea consumer

Mean

0.02 (0.02–0.02)c

0.08 (0.08–0.09)c

P50

0.01 (0.01–0.01)

0.05 (0.05–0.05)

P90

0.04 (0.04–0.06)

0.17 (0.17–0.25)

P95

0.06 (0.05–0.06)

0.25 (0.24–0.25)

P97.5

0.08 (0.07–0.08)

0.33 (0.32–0.35)

P99

0.11 (0.10–0.12)

0.46 (0.44–0.50)

P99.9

0.25 (0.20–0.30)

1.08 (0.85–1.23)

  1. aRPFs calculated by BMD10, IC for OPs is methamidophos
  2. bRPFs calculated by CED20, IC for OPs is methamidophos
  3. cNumbers with brackets are the lower (2.5%) and upper (97.5%) bounds of the 95% confidence interval of the corresponding percentiles of exposure
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