TABLE 1.
Body weight, surface area and ingestion (all normal distributions) assumptions made for Monte Carlo calculations of population dermal exposures.
| Body weight (kg) a | Total surface area (m2) (excluding the head) b |
Total surface area (m2) c |
Drinking water ingestion rate (mL/day) d |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | 10% | 90% | 50% | 10% | 90% | 50% | 10% | 90% | Mean | 10% | 90% | |
| Girlse | 35.2 | 27.1 | 45.6 | 0.976 | 0.846 | 1.14 | 1.1 | 0.954 | 1.29 | 811 | 278 | 1540 |
| Boyse | 34.8 | 26.9 | 44.8 | 0.967 | 0.851 | 1.14 | 1.09 | 0.959 | 1.29 | 914 | 294 | 1860 |
| Womenf | 65.4 | 50.3 | 84.4 | 1.58 | 1.38 | 1.87 | 1.69 | 1.49 | 1.98 | 1300 | 551 | 2150 |
| Menf | 78.1 | 62.3 | 95.7 | 1.81 | 1.6 | 2.06 | 1.94 | 1.72 | 2.2 | 1460 | 582 | 2490 |
a
National Center for Health Statistics (1987).
b
Data used for bath exposure from U.S. EPA (1985). The head surface area for children was calculated to be on average 11.3 % of the body.
c
Data used for pool exposure from U.S. EPA (1985).
e
The data are for children 1–19 years old.
f
Applied to adults >20 years old.