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ArticleEFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority2024

Update of the risk assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in food.

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Dieter Schrenk, Margherita Bignami, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Jesús Del Mazo, Bettina Grasl-Kraupp, Christer Hogstrand, Laurentius Ron Hoogenboom, Jean-Charles Leblanc and 17 more

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Article in EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
28citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
12.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM)
Dieter Schrenk
Margherita Bignami
Laurent Bodin
James Kevin Chipman
Jesús Del Mazo
Bettina Grasl-Kraupp
Christer Hogstrand
Laurentius Ron Hoogenboom
Jean-Charles Leblanc
Carlo Stefano Nebbia
Elsa Nielsen
Evangelia Ntzani
Annette Petersen
Salomon Sand
Tanja Schwerdtle
Heather Wallace
Diane Benford
Peter Fürst
Andy Hart
Martin Rose
Henri Schroeder
Martine Vrijheid
Sofia Ioannidou
Marina Nikolič
Luisa Ramos Bordajandi
Christiane Vleminckx

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The European Commission asked EFSA to update its 2011 risk assessment on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in food, focusing on 10 congeners:

Indexed as

foodhuman exposureoccurrencePBDEsPolybrominated diphenyl ethersrisk assessmenttoxicology

Identifiers

PMID38269035
PMCPMC10807361
OpenAlexW4391177368

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