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JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL TOXICOLOGY
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 537-542Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jat/bkw046
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- Steigerwald Inc., Darmstadt, Germany
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Ethanol is widely used in herbal medicines, e.g., for children. Furthermore, alcohol is a constituent of fermented food such as bread or yogurt and non-fermented food such as fruit juices. At the same time, exposure to very low levels of ethanol in children is discussed as possibly having adverse effects on psychomotoric functions. Here, we have analyzed alcohol levels in different food products from the German market. It was found that orange, apple and grape juice contain substantial amounts of ethanol (up to 0.77 g/L). Furthermore, certain packed bakery products such as burger rolls or sweet milk rolls contained more than 1.2 g ethanol/100 g. We designed a scenario for average ethanol exposure by a 6-year-old child. Consumption data for the categories bananas, bread and bakery products and apple juice were derived from US and German surveys. An average daily exposure of 10.3mg ethanol/kg body weight (b.w.) was estimated. If a high (acute) consumption level was assumed for one of the categories, exposure rose to 12.5-23.3mg/kg b.w. This amount is almost 2-fold (average) or up to 4-fold (high) higher than the lowest exposure from herbal medicines (6mg/kg b.w.) suggested to require warning hints for the use in children.
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