3.4. Formaldehyde exposure from consumption of squid
products
To provide different scenarios of formaldehyde exposure from
squid, the aquatic product consumption data from a Nutrition
and Health Survey in Taiwan were adopted [37]. Body weight
data were taken from the Dietary Reference Intake Tables of
Taiwan [38]. Assuming that all of the aquatic product consumption
is solely from squid and squid products and that the
highest level of free formaldehyde concentration is 48.5 mg/
kg, the calculated data for formaldehyde exposure from squid
products are shown in Table 7. The calculated highest formaldehyde
exposure is 0.011 mg/kg/d, which is less than the
0.2 mg/kg/d RfD suggested by the US EPA.
If all of the protein consumption is from shredded squid,
the calculated exposure levels are shown in Table 8. The
calculated highest formaldehyde exposure is 0.074 mg/kg/d, which is also less than the 0.2 mg/kg/d RfD suggested by the
US EPA. Therefore, there appears to be no risk associated with
the consumption of shredded squid with 48.5 mg/kg of free
formaldehyde