Abstract:

Conduct quantitative risk assessment to evaluate the risk level of formaldehyde by means of aquatic products’ dietary comsumption. Hazard quotient was employed to characterize the dietary risk of formaldehyde via eating aquatic products with the application of @risk software basing on Monte Carlo simulation. The results showed that the average and each percentile of the hazard quotient of general population through consuming both aquatic products and dried fishery products were all less than 1. Moreover, the average and every percentile of hazard quotient by dietary consumption of dried fishery products was almost one order of magnitude lower than that by dietary consumption of fresh aquatic products. Therefore, to the general population, the dietary exposure of formaldehyde only by aquatic products’ consumption was unlikely to bring about severe health risk. But the control and monitoring of formaldehyde in fresh aquatic products should be strengthened to further reduce the dietary formaldehyde risk level of the general population.