. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Appl Toxicol. 2011 Mar 1;32(6):387–394. doi: 10.1002/jat.1657

TABLE 2.

Dermal bath and pool water exposure duration and frequency assumptions (lognormal distribution) used in Monte Carlo calculations of a typical population.

	Bathing Duration (minutes/bath) ^a			Swimming Pool Visit Duration (minutes/month) ^a
	50%^c	10%	90%	50%^c	10%	90%
Typical population ^b	20	10	45	60	15	180

	Bathing Frequency (baths/day)^a			Swimming Pool Visit Frequency (visits/month)^a
	1^c	2	3	1	2	3	20	30	range
Typical population^b	70.7%	22.2%	3.08%	22.5%	14.4%	11.2%	3.83%	3.98%	1–60 exposures

Tsang and Klepeis (1996).

Applied to both adults and children.

A 20-min bath exposure and a 60-min pool duration and a 1 bath/day assumption was made to calculate dermal doses from typical exposures.