Extensive literature review on plasticisers

An extensive review of the literature was performed to identify scientific articles relevant to theexposure assessment of potential plasticiser substances. The initial search resulted in a databaseconsisting of 21,453 papers provided by EFSA. The relevance analysis of the documentsperformed by screening of titles and abstracts and applying inclusion and exclusion criteriaidentified 582 documents. In a subsequent step, a full text screening was carried out for furtherstudy selection and categorisation and resulted in 383 relevant documents, distributed over thefollowing 8 areas of interests: Area 1 (plasticisers in food) - 72 references; Area 2 (dietaryexposure) - 30 references; Area 3 (market share and food chain) - 21 references; Area 4(migration of plasticisers) - 65 references; Area 5 (packaged food) - 9 references; Area 6 (non-food use of plasticisers) - 73 references; Area 7 (non-dietary exposure to plasticisers) - 88references; Area 8 (overall exposure) - 115 references. A data form was prepared, and high-level information were extracted from each relevant reference, reporting information considereduseful for the exposure assessment of potential plasticisers, in line with the areas of interest. Inaddition, a summary paragraph for each potential plasticiser was provided.