Dieter Schrenk, Margherita Bignami, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Jesús Del Mazo, Christer Hogstrand, Laurentius Ron Hoogenboom, Jean-Charles Leblanc, Carlo Stefano Nebbia, Elsa Nielsen, Evangelia Ntzani, Annette Petersen, Salomon Sand, Tanja Schwerdtle, Christiane Vleminckx, Heather Wallace, Benigni Romualdo, Fortes Cristina, Hecht Stephen, Iammarino Marco, Olaf Mosbach-Schulz, Francesca Riolo, Anna Christodoulidou, Bettina Grasl-Kraupp
EFSA was asked for a scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of N -nitrosamines ( N -NAs) in food. The risk assessment was confined to those 10 carcinogenic N -NAs occurring in food (TCNAs), i.e. NDMA, NMEA, NDEA, NDPA, NDBA, NMA, NSAR, NMOR, NPIP and NPYR. N -NAs are genotoxic and induce liver tumours in rodents. The in vivo data available to derive potency factors are limited, and therefore, equal potency of TCNAs was assumed. The lower confidence limit of the benchmark dose at 10% (BMDL10 ) was 10 μg/kg body weight (bw) per day, derived from the incidence of rat liver tumours (benign and malignant) induced by NDEA and used in a margin of exposure (MOE) approach...
March 2023: EFSA journal