Benefit-risk assessment of Baltic herring and salmon intake

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Scope

This assessmnet is part of the WP5 work in Goherr project. Purpose is to evaluate health benefits and risks caused by eating Baltic herring and salmon in four Baltic sea country. This assessment is currently on-going.

Question

What are the population level heatlth benefits and risks of eating Baltic herring and salmon in Finalnd, Estonia, Denmark and Sweden?

Intended use and users

• Goherr project group
•  ?

Participants

• National istitute for Health and welfare (THL)
• Goherr project group

Boundaries

• Four baltic sea countries
• Current situation
• Estimation for future (year 2020?)

Timing

• Model development during 2016 and 2017
• First set of results in March 2017, draft publication in March 2018

Answer

This section will be updated as soon as preliminary results are available

Rationale

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Schematic picture of the health benefit-risk model for Baltic herring and salmon intake.

Dependencies

• Toxic equivalency factor (TEF)
• Consumption of fish
• Pollutant and fatty acid levels
  • Persistent organic pollutant levels in Baltic herring
  • Persistent organic pollutant levels in Baltic salmon
• Risk functions of health effects
  • Exposure-response fuctions of Dioxins
  • Exposure-response functions of fatty acids
  • Exposure-response functions of methylmercury
• Background health data (incidences and DALY)