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Dietary Exposure Assessment Activities at U.S. EPA's Office Pesticide Programs. Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Workshop on Chemical Food Safety Risk Assessment FDA – Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Aaron Niman LT, USPHS
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Dietary Exposure Assessment Activities at U.S. EPA's Office Pesticide Programs Interagency Risk Assessment Consortium Workshop on Chemical Food Safety Risk Assessment FDA – Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Aaron NimanLT, USPHS Office of Pesticide ProgramsUS Environmental Protection Agency June 14, 2012 Health Effects Division Office of Pesticide Programs
Overview • U.S. EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) • OPP’s dietary exposure assessment methodology • Dietary Exposure Assessment Resources • Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) • JIFSAN Foodrisk.org Web Application • Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model (DEEM) • Stochastic Human Exposure and Dose Simulation (SHEDS) Model
Office Director EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs Antimicrobials Health Effects Environmental Fate & Effects • Registers pesticides for agricultural, residential, and public health applications • Evaluates safety of pesticides by assessing exposure and associated risks • Establishes legal limits (aka “tolerances”) for pesticides on agricultural commodities Biopesticides & Pollution Prevention Biological & Economic Analysis Registration Pesticide Re-Evaluation Field & External Affairs IT
Dietary Exposure Assessment Approach • Evaluate food consumption patterns and residue concentrations that lead to highest potential for exposure • Assessments range from simple to complex, but based on same general exposure algorithm • Tiering process used to refine exposure assessment to reflect more realistic assumptions Residue Consumption Dietary Exposure = X
Dietary Exposure Modeling • Exposure assessment models based on nationally-representative monitoring surveys Key data surveys and databases: • USDA’s Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Nationally representative commodity residue sampling program • Continuing Survey of Food Intake by Individuals (CSFII) (1994-96/1998) NHANES’ What We Eat In America (WWEIA) Nationally representative food consumption surveys • U.S. EPA’s Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) Recipe database that links WWEIA foods to PDP residue data
Dietary Exposure Modeling Food Consumption (WWEIA) Food Recipe Database (FCID) Raw Ingredient Consumption Dietary Exposure + = Ingredient Pesticide Residue (USDA/PDP) Acceptable Level aPAD, cPAD, etc. Risk
Dietary Exposure Modeling • Modeling tools rely on probabilistic techniques (Monte-Carlo) to evaluate exposure • Techniques are routinely applied by OPP for virtually all of its pesticide risk assessments • Allow the Agency to characterize and quantify the variability in dietary exposure across various subgroups of interest X = All Consumption Values All Residue Values Range of Dietary Exposures
Dietary Exposure Modeling DEEM-FCID/Calendex SHEDS-Multimedia
Dietary Resources • Food Commodity Intake Database • Recipe database used by EPA/OPP in exposure assessment models • Developed using CSFII, 1994-96, 1998 • Updated for NHANES-WWEIA, 2003-08 • Foodrisk.org Web Application • FCID recipe search tool • Links to NHANES-WWEIA • Population-based consumption estimates • Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model (DEEM) • Dietary exposure assessment mode • Now free and publically available • Utilizes NHANES WWEIA 2003-08 survey data • Stochastic Human Exposure and Dose Simulation (SHEDS) Model • Developed by EPA’s Office of Research and Development • Simulates aggregate and cumulative dietary exposure
Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) • Both CSFII and WWEIA Captures dietary recall data on foods as reported eaten Examples: • 1 slice apple pie, • 1 Big Mac™ , • 1 slice Cheese Pizza (1/8 of 12” pie) • Pesticide residue information and regulatory focus is on a food commodity basis • Therefore, estimating dietary exposure requires converting data on foods “as eaten” to food commodities (e.g, tomato sauce, wheat flour, apples, soybean oil, beef, milk, etc.)
Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) • Translates foods as reported eaten to raw agricultural commodities using U.S. EPA food vocabulary • Developed in collaboration with USDA ‘s Agricultural Research Service • Originally based on: • CSFII 1994-96/1998 • USDA’s Food and Nutrient Database for Dietary Studies (FNDDS) • Converts more than 5,000 food codes into recipes containing roughly 540 difference food commodities
Food Commodity Intake Database (FCID) • Also includes additional information on food commodities (used subsequently in exposure modeling) • Cooked Status (Yes, No) • Food Form (Fresh, frozen, etc.) • Cooking Method (Baked, boiled, etc.)
Updating FCID: WWEIA 2003-2008 • New Recipe Formation • New recipes were needed for foods that were not included in earlier versions of FCID. • Some of these new foods were easily matched to an already existing recipe for a similar food that was in the CSFII-FCID database, with little or no modification necessary. • Other foods required generating a recipe “from scratch,” or using an already existing recipe but applying significant alterations to their ingredients.
FCID Accessibility • Developed database and user interface in MS Access • Web application with USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service and U-Maryland’s Joint Institute of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) Functionality • Improve transparency of coded fields • Make recipes fully searchable • Make recipe format more user-friendly • Enable users to estimate consumption of food commodities Weighted mean and percentile calculations http://fcid.foodrisk.org/
Dietary Exposure Evaluation Model (DEEM) • EPA/OPP has acquired DEEM license and made freely available to the public • Improve accessibility • Increase transparency of EPA/OPP regulatory decisions • DEEM Updates and Release • Incorporates WWEIA 2003-08 consumption data • Addressed stakeholder feedback from Fall 2011 beta testing • Enables eating occasion analysis http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/deem/
SHEDS-Multimedia • State-of-the-science model developed by EPA’s Office of Research and Development • Enables longitudinal assessment of exposure from multimedia sources • SHEDS-Residential v.4: Residential model that can simulate cumulative or aggregate residential exposures over time via multiple routes of exposure for different types of chemicals and scenarios. • SHEDS-Dietary v.1: Dietary model that can simulate individual exposures to chemicals in food and drinking water over different time periods • Collaborated closely with EPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs with extensive peer-review by the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel http://www.epa.gov/heasd/products/sheds_multimedia/sheds_mm.html
What’s Next • FCID Recipe Database • FCID 2003-06 available through foodrisk.org • Working to finalize 2003-08 recipe CR-ROM and make available through JIFSAN foodrisk.org website • DEEM-WWEIA 2003-08 • Available through EPA/OPP website • Performing model-to-model comparisons • Upcoming ISES Dietary Symposium (Oct-2012) • SHED-Dietary • Available through EPA/ORD website
Exposure Assessment Resources FCID Recipe Database http://fcid.foodrisk.org/ DEEM-WWEIA 2003-08 http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/science/deem/ SHEDS-Multimedia http://www.epa.gov/heasd/products/sheds_multimedia/sheds_mm.html
New Recipe Formation Step 1 Identify food nutrients Step 1.A Conduct internet search to determine food description and ingredients (if necessary) Step 2 Search existing recipes for similar food Step 3 Use similar existing recipe as starting point for new recipe Step 4 Modify/add/delete recipe commodities to match new recipe nutrient information