Jong EJ de ,
Ven-Breken TJ van de ,
Noordijk H ,
Kempers N
93 p
in Dutch
1990
Toon Nederlands
English Abstract In studies and regulations on the ingestion of
radionuclides, which are present in food, information on food consumption is
in general limited to the average consumption of a population or to the
consumption of large subgroups of a population. However, an insight in the
individual variation in food consumption is essential for assessing maximal
doses which may be received by individuals. The data collected in a large
food consumption research programme in the Netherlands are used to assess
the variation and extremes in consumption for one-year-olds and for adults
and children of 10 to 11 years old, male and female separately. The
variation in food consumption appears to be rather similar for all classes
of food and all population groups considered. Extremely high consumption,
relative to the average consumption of the population group considered, is
slightly higher for adults than for other population
groups.
