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Review
. 2016 Mar 30;96(5):1415-9.
doi: 10.1002/jsfa.7607. Epub 2016 Feb 4.

Dietary burden calculations relating to fish metabolism studies

Christian Schlechtriem  1 , Johannes Pucher  2 , Britta Michalski  3
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Review

Dietary burden calculations relating to fish metabolism studies

Christian Schlechtriem et al. J Sci Food Agric. .

Abstract

Fish farming is increasingly dependent on plant commodities as a source of feed leading to an increased risk for pesticide residues in aquaculture diets and consequently their transfer into aquaculture food products. The European pesticide regulation requires fish metabolism and fish feeding studies where residues in fish feed exceed 0.1 mg kg(-1) of the total diet (dry weight basis) to enable the setting of appropriate maximum residue levels in fish commodities. Fish dietary burden calculation is therefore an important prerequisite to decide on further experimental testing as part of the consumer risk assessment. In this review, the different aquaculture production systems are compared with regard to their specific feeding practices and the principles of dietary burden calculation are described.

Keywords: aquaculture; dietary exposure; feed residues; fish feeding; pesticide regulation; risk assessment.

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Principles of dietary burden calculation for formulated aquaculture diets.
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