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Title: Incorporating mass balance concepts in total exposure studies

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:270201

Total exposure studies require the monitoring of personal exposures to pollutants over all five routes of exposure: (1) Inhaling air; (2) Drinking water; (3) Eating food; (4) Uptake through the skin; (5) Other unique incidents, such as thumb sucking, and chewing or smoking tobacco. To evaluate their potential effect on human health, the exposures via these five routes can be added together as a total applied dose or a total absorbed dose over the period of the study (e.g., mg/kg/day). The authors present three exposure survey designs from the WHO/UNEP Human Exposure Assessment Locations (HEAL) Programme, the NCI/NIEHS/EPA Agricultural Health Study (AHS), and the EPA National Human Exposure Assessment Study (NHEXAS) and discuss their abilities to estimate an applied dose or an absorbed dose of target subjects using a mass balance approach.

Research Organization:
Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). National Exposure Research Lab.
OSTI ID:
270201
Report Number(s):
PB-96-184460/XAB; EPA-600/A-96/060; TRN: 61982278
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English