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The present work presents an exercise to simulate exposure of Portuguese consumers to
benzophenone, a photoinitiator used in packaging printing inks. The simulation model combined
experimental data of benzophenone concentration found in packages collected from market and
food consumption and packaging usage data obtained from a database. The model followed a
probabilistic approach: the distribution of occurrence data was combined with food consumption
data in a probabilistic simulation with the Monte Carlo sampling method. The values found
indicate that benzophenone levels of exposure are of no health concern according to the tolerable
daily intake defined by EFSA.
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Machado, C; Fernandes, Conceição; Pereira, J; Poças, MF (2010). Probabilistic simulation of children exposure to migrants from packaging: photoinitiators from printing inks. In 6th International Conference on Simulation and Modelling in the Food and Bio-Industry, FOODSIM’2010. Bragança