Exposure factors handbook

Technical Report · Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5192412

Konz, J J; Lisi, K; Friebele, E; Dixon, D A

The document provides a summary of the available data on various factors used in assessing human exposure including drinking-water consumption, consumption rates of broad classes of food including fruits, vegetables, beef, dairy products, and fish; soil ingestion; inhalation rate; skin area; lifetime; activity patterns; and body weight. Additionally, a number of specific exposure scenarios are identified with recommendations for default values to use when site-specific data are not available. The basic equations using these parameters to calculate exposure levels are also presented for each scenario. Default values are presented as ranges from typical to reasonable worst case and as frequency distributions where appropriate data were available. Finally, procedures for assessing the uncertainties in exposure assessments are also presented with illustrative examples. These procedures include qualitative and quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo and sensitivity analysis.

• Research Organization: Versar, Inc., Springfield, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5192412
• Report Number(s): PB-90-106774/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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