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Table 1 Adult urinary 3-PBA concentrations (µg/L) measured in HBM aligned studies under the HBM4EU project (2014–2021)

From: A preliminary estimate of the environmental burden of disease associated with exposure to pyrethroid insecticides and ADHD in Europe based on human biomonitoring

Country (Study)

Sampling year

Sample type

N

Percentiles

P05

P10

P25

P50

P75

P90

P95

France**

2014–2016

First morning

144

0.197

0.251

0.438

0.819

1.341

2.015

2.773

Iceland*

2019–2021

Spot

194

< LOQ

< LOQ

0.148

0.270

0.546

1.188

1.650

Switzerland*

2020

First morning

299

< LOQ

0.110

0.190

0.380

0.680

1.220

1.932

Germany*

2015–2020

24 h

180

< LOQ

< LOQ

0.128

0.210

0.363

0.544

0.770

Israel*

2015–2016

Spot

83

0.142

0.187

0.360

0.754

1.358

2.338

2.874

  1. The studies of France (ESTEBAN), Israel (RAV-MABAT), Iceland (DIET-HBM) and Switzerland (HBM4EU) are national studies; German data are from the Environmental Specimen Bank; LOQ = 0.1 µg/L for all studies
  2. *: Biomarker data quality assured by HBM4EU QA/QC program [33]
  3. **: Biomarker data generated before HBM4EU but conducted according to a comparable QA/QC program [33]
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