date:Jul 24, 2012
tates together provided more than half of the samples for dioxins and DL-PCBs.
Germany provided 23.8%, the UK 10.9%, Denmark 10.2%, Italy 9.2% and Norway 7.7% Bulgaria, Malta and Portugal did not submit any results.
Therefore, EFSA said that the results should be interpreted with some caution as the report did not take regional variations into account.
On the one hand, food contamination and population exposure may have been overestimated due to targeted sampling.
On the other hand, not all