Risk of exposure to total and inorganic arsenic by meat intake among different age groups from Brazil: a probabilistic assessment

Azevedo, Lucas Silva; Pestana, Inacio Abreu; Meneguelli-Souza, Annaliza Carvalho; Ramos, Bruno; Pessanha, Daniel Ribeiro; Caldas, Dayana; Almeida, Marcelo Gomes; de Souza, Cristina Maria Magalhaes

Risk of exposure to total and inorganic arsenic by meat intake among different age groups from Brazil: a probabilistic assessment

2018

Beef and poultry as well as cattle and chicken livers are staple food items for Brazilian population, and previous studies had detected arsenic levels in these foods. This study aims to evaluate the risk of exposure to total and inorganic arsenic by meat intake in three age groups from Brazil (11–16, 16–21, and > 21 years). Our hypotheses are (i) that there is differences in the risk of exposure between age groups and (ii) the older individuals (> 21 years) are under higher risk. To test these hypotheses, we calculated the probabilistic estimated daily intake of total As (TAsᴱᴰᴵ) from poultry, beef, cattle liver, and chicken liver, and the probabilistic estimated incremental lifetime skin, bladder, and lung cancer risk (ILCR) associated with inorganic As ingestion from poultry only. TAsᴱᴰᴵ and ILCR from poultry differed among groups which confirm the first hypothesis. However, TAsᴱᴰᴵ and ILCR results cannot support the second hypothesis. Even though the age groups are under a low risk of exposure to As by meat intake, the results indicate that bladder/lung cancer risk (from poultry intake) slightly exceeds the safe limits in the older population.

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