Final Assessment Report - Application A552: Cadmium in peanuts

Overview

Key numbers

• Peanut cadmium concentration table: Table A1.1 reports China Total Diet Study 2000 peanuts with mean cadmium 0.087 mg/kg, lowest concentration 0.020 mg/kg, and highest concentration 0.239 mg/kg.
• Table A1.1 reports United States Total Diet Survey 1991-2004 peanuts with mean cadmium 0.057 mg/kg, lowest concentration 0.020 mg/kg, and highest concentration 0.117 mg/kg.
• Table A1.1 reports Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service 2001-2006 peanut cadmium test results with mean cadmium 0.090 mg/kg, lowest concentration 0.010 mg/kg, and highest concentration 0.410 mg/kg.
• Table A1.1 reports New Zealand Total Diet Survey 2003-2004 peanuts with mean cadmium 0.075 mg/kg, lowest concentration 0.028 mg/kg, and highest concentration 0.157 mg/kg.
• Dietary exposure setup: Section 4 reports that dietary exposures were modeled using peanuts at a baseline level of 0.04 mg/kg and at the proposed maximum level of 0.5 mg/kg.
• Baseline total-diet cadmium exposure: Table A3.1 reports mean all-respondent dietary exposures of 0.0009 - 0.0011 mg/kg bw/wk for Australians aged 2 years +, 0.0018 - 0.0024 mg/kg bw/wk for Australian children aged 2-6 years, and 0.0011 - 0.0013 mg/kg bw/wk for New Zealanders aged 15 years +.
• Proposed-ML total-diet cadmium exposure: Table A3.2 reports mean all-respondent dietary exposures of 0.0011 - 0.0013 mg/kg bw/wk for Australians aged 2 years +, 0.0022 - 0.0029 mg/kg bw/wk for Australian children aged 2-6 years, and 0.0012 - 0.0014 mg/kg bw/wk for New Zealanders aged 15 years +.
• Peanuts-only exposure at 0.5 mg/kg: Table A3.3 reports Australian 2 years + peanut consumers n=2986, mean all-respondent exposure 0.0002 mg/kg bw/wk, mean consumer exposure 0.0009 mg/kg bw/wk, and 90th percentile consumer exposure 0.0022 mg/kg bw/wk.
• Peanuts-only exposure at 0.5 mg/kg: Table A3.3 reports Australian 2-6 years peanut consumers n=308, mean all-respondent exposure 0.0005 mg/kg bw/wk, mean consumer exposure 0.0016 mg/kg bw/wk, and 90th percentile consumer exposure 0.0041 mg/kg bw/wk.
• Peanuts-only exposure at 0.5 mg/kg: Table A3.3 reports New Zealand 15 years + peanut consumers n=1046, mean all-respondent exposure 0.0001 mg/kg bw/wk, mean consumer exposure 0.0006 mg/kg bw/wk, and 90th percentile consumer exposure 0.0013 mg/kg bw/wk.
• Table A5.3 expresses peanuts-only exposure as a percentage of the source-cited PTWI: Australia 2 years + mean all respondents 3%, mean consumers 10%, 90th percentile consumers 30%; Australia 2-6 years mean all respondents 7%, mean consumers 20%, 90th percentile consumers 60%; New Zealand 15 years + mean all respondents 2%, mean consumers 8%, 90th percentile consumers 20%.

Methods (brief)

FSANZ sourced peanut cadmium concentration data from AQIS imported-food tests analyzed between October 2001 and October 2006, the USFDA Total Diet Study market baskets from 1991-1993 through 2004, the Chinese Total Diet Study 2000, and the New Zealand Total Diet Survey 2003/04. Dietary exposure was modeled for the Australian 1995 National Nutrition Survey and the 1997 New Zealand National Nutrition Survey using lower-bound/upper-bound cadmium concentration handling. The source reports total cadmium only and does not provide a single sample count for Table A1.1 concentration sources.

Related evidence

• Cadmium
• Peanuts
• Peanut butter
• Peanut Oil
• Peanuts
• Peanut Butter

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