Ethyl carbamate is a food processing contaminant classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in 2007 as "probably carcinogenic to humans" (Group 2A). A total of 2 399 analytical results on the occurrence of ethyl carbamate in the sampling years 2010-2012 from 11 Member States were extracted from the EFSA contaminant occurrence database and analysed. Data primarily pertained to the food group 'Spirits‘ (96 % of results), in particular the subgroup 'Spirits made from stone fruits‘ (81 % of results).
