Two additional studies reporting on the concentrations of OTA in foods sold in Canada were recently published (Bansal et al., 2011; Tam et al., 2011).
A number of reports on concentrations of toxic metal such as Cd, and Pb in rice and paddy soils in Japan, China, and Indonesia are available [ 27– 31].
Previous studies of the prognostic value of suPAR concentration have reported on much longer durations of follow-up of 3 years [ 15] and 5 years [ 14] in natural history cohorts.
Akoto et al. (2008) as well as Badu et al. (2013) in their work reported on similar concentrations of iron, zinc, manganese and copper in the main tributaries of the Owabi river.
Nine studies reported effects on concentration of serum retinol from blood samples.
G 0) reports on concentration of the diffusive receptors and is used to calculate molecular brightness.
A few articles also report on the concentration of glucosinolates (Wu et al., 2005) in which the evaluation has been carried out using biosensors made of myrosinase and glucose oxidase enzymes, both for electrochemical and optical biosensors.
There are few authors reporting on cystatin C concentrations during the first days of life [ 14– 18] and the claim is that cystatin C is an effective and earlier surrogate marker of decreased GFR than plasma creatinine in unselected ICU population.
Aside from NHANES, there have been only a few studies in other pregnancy cohorts from around the world that have reported on urinary concentrations for some of these analytes [ 11– 130 32, 32, 44].
However, a detailed analysis of the database on reported blood concentrations of BPA, considering the strengths and weaknesses of the analytical methodologies, sampling procedures, background contamination, and biological plausibility based on the toxicokinetics, needs to be performed to draw conclusions.
