Variable:Assessment:Exposure risks of Hg, dioxins and PCBs and nutritional benefits of fish consumption by means of Bayesian belief networks

Scope

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Cause-effect BBN diagram

Purpose

Net health effects of fish consumption due to intake of beneficial nutrients and constituents (fish oils) and on the other hand, exposure to environmental contaminants such as PCDD/Fs, PCBs, MeHg taken up by fish.

Boundaries

• Environmental contaminants relevant from the human health point of view and thus included in the assessment are:
  • PCDD/Fs
  • PCBs
  • Hg (as MetHg)
• Nutritional constituents relevant from the human health point of view and readily usable with quantitative dose-response information available included in the asessment at the moment are:
  • fish oils
• Current situation (BAU)

Scenarios

BAU-type assessment (business-as-usual assessment), i.e. a burden-of-disease assessment with only one decision scenario.

Intended users

Experts, researchers and decision makers in the field of environmental health, anyone interested and concerned with beneficial and hazardous constituents in fish species in the markets.

Participants

Participation basically completely open. Some parts containing original data will be protected.

• Everyone interested
• Beneris researchers (full access to the protected parts)

Definition

Decision variables

• None at the moment