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. 2012 Jan 3;9(1):73–96. doi: 10.3390/ijerph9010073

Table 6.

Dose estimations (nmol/kg-day) for the farmworker children population (n = 115,000) by pesticide and route.

Pesticide Route Range Mean Median
chlorpyrifos dermal 0.000–0.003 (0.0–1.5%) 0.001 (0.3%) 0.001 (0.2%)
inhalation 0.000–0.011 (0.0–5.3%) 0.002 (0.9%) 0.002 (0.8%)
non-dietary ingestion 0.023–1.206 (1.5–84.5%) 0.189 (56.6%) 0.175 (59.2%)
dietary 0.000–2.120 (0.0–94.4%) 0.252 (42.2%) 0.109 (39.4%)
aggregate a 0.031–2.43 (28.2–96.8%) 0.444 (67.5%) 0.314 (65.7%)
diazinon dermal 0.000–0.003 (0.0–1.4%) 0.001 (0.5%) 0.001 (0.4%)
inhalation 0.000–0.166 (0.0–42.4%) 0.006 (4.8%) 0.006 (4.0%)
non-dietary ingestion 0.018–0.365 (1.2–60.1%) 0.123 (72.1%) 0.113 (76.2%)
dietary 0.000–0.260 (0.0–56.0%) 0.039 (22.6%) 0.314 (18.6%)
aggregate a 0.028–0.551 (3.2–71.8%) 0.169 (32.5%) 0.158 (34.3%)
cumulative dermal 0.000–0.005 (0.0–2.9%) 0.001 (0.3%) 0.001 (0.3%)
inhalation 0.001–0.170 (0.1–43.5%) 0.009 (2.1%) 0.009 (1.7%)
non-dietary ingestion 0.051–1.48 (3.0–99.1%) 0.312 (59.5%) 0.292 (62.4%)
dietary 0.000–2.20 (0.0–96.5%) 0.290 (38.1%) 0.150 (34.7%)
aggregate 0.061–2.78 0.613 0.496

a percent contribution of pesticide to cumulative dose.