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Food and Chemical Toxicology 47 (2009) 2883–2889 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Food and Chemical Toxicology journal homepage: www. /loc ate/foodchemtox Harmonisation of food consumption data format for dietary exposure assessments of chemicals analysed in raw agricultural commodities Polly E. Boon a,*, Jiri Ruprich b, Annette Petersen c, Shahnaz Moussavian d, Francesca Debegnach e, Jacob D. van Klaveren a a RIKILT – Institute of Food Safety, Wageningen University and Research Centre, P.O. Box 230, 6700 AE Wageningen, The Netherlands b National Institute of Public Health, Prague, CHFCH Brno, Czech Republic c National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Department of Toxicology and Risk Assessment, Søborg, Denmark d National Food Administration, Research and Development Department, Uppsala, Sweden e Instituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: In this paper, we present an approach to format national food consumption data at raw agricultural com- Received 24 July 2008 modity (RAC) level. In this way, the data is both formatted in a harmonised way given the comparability Accepted 6 August 2009 of RACs between countries, and suitable to assess the dietary exposure to chemicals analysed in RACs at a European level. In this approach, consumption data needs to be converted to edible part of RAC (e-RAC) level using a RAC conversion database. To subsequently use this data in exposure assessments, both Keyw