Fig. 3

Hypothetical intake of As species based on seafood consumption data for two populations (Japan and the USA), using estimated distributions of As compounds from median total As concentrations (EFSA, 2009) and distributions from the literature (Fig. 2a), compared with the same diet but where Bluefin tuna having 50% AsLipid and 3.2 mg/kg As wet wt (converted from 5.9 mg/kg As dry weight, present as equal parts fat soluble and water soluble As reported by Taleshi et al., 2010, assuming 80% water content) as the source of pelagic fish, or where mussels with elevated concentrations of iAs (42% of 13.8 mg/kg As wet wt reported by Sloth et al., 2008) were the source of bivalves.