Benefit-risk assessment of methyl mercury and omega-3 fatty acids in fish
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Contents
Scope
Purpose
This assessment evaluates the effects of methyl mercury and omega-3 fatty acids on development of IQ in children. The source of exposure is Finnish fish consumption.
Boundaries
- Population of Finland
- Current situation
Scenarios
This study is a business-as-usual, i.e. a burden-of-disease assessment with only one decision scenario. D↷
This project is supposed to serve as a case study to represent the utilization of the pyrkilo method.
Intended users
Participants
- Beneris researchers
Definition
Template:Risk assessment of MeHg and n-3 fatty acids in fish
Decision variables
- None
Indicators
Other variables
- Variable:Concentrations of nutrients and pollutants in fish
- Variable:Domestic fish consumption of the pregnant women
- Variable:Domestic fish consumption of the general population
- Variable:Body weight
- Variable:Exposure to methyl mercury and omega-3 fatty acid due to fish consumption
- Variable:Exposure-response of omega-3 for IQ boost
- Variable:Exposure-response of methyl mercury for IQ loss
Indices
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Analyses
Interesting population subgroups for exposure might be:
- pregnant women with high fish consumption (e.g. 0.95 percentile of fish consumption data of pregnant women)
- pregnant women with average fish consumption (e.g. mean fish consumption of pregnant women)
- pregnant women with very low or no fish consumption (e.g. 0.05 percentile of fish consumption data of pregnant women)
- general Finnish population with normal fish consumption (as a comparison to the pregnant women scenarios)