Estimating human exposure through multiple pathways from air, water, and soil

Mckone, TE; Daniels, JI

HERO ID

626198

Reference Type

Journal Article

Year

1991

Language

English

PMID

2024045

HERO ID 626198
In Press No
Year 1991
Title Estimating human exposure through multiple pathways from air, water, and soil
Authors Mckone, TE; Daniels, JI
Journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology
Volume 13
Issue 1
Page Numbers 36-61
Abstract This paper describes a set of multipathway, multimedia models for estimating potential human exposure to environmental contaminants. The models link concentrations of an environmental contaminant in air, water, and soil to human exposure through inhalation, ingestion, and dermalcontact routes. The relationship between concentration of a contaminant in an environmental medium and human exposure is determined with pathway exposure factors (PEFs). A PEF is an algebraic expression that incorporates information on human physiology and lifestyle together with models of environmental partitioning and translates a concentration (i.e., mg/m3 in air, mg/liter in water, or mg/kg in soil) into a lifetime-equivalent chronic daily intake (CDI) in mg/kg-day. Human, animal, and environmental data used in calculating PEFs are presented and discussed. Generalized PEFs are derived for air → inhalation, air → ingestion, water → inhalation, water → ingestion, water → dermal uptake, soil → inhalation, soil → ingestion, and soil → dermal uptake pathways. To illustrate the application of the PEF expressions, we apply them to soil-based contamination of multiple environmental media by arsenic, tetrachloroethylene (PCE), and trinitrotoluene (TNT).
Doi 10.1016/0273-2300(91)90040-3
Pmid 2024045
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