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. 2012 Nov 22;6:138. doi: 10.1186/1752-153X-6-138

Table 7.

Main bioaccessibility results for materials tested using an in vitro procedure calibrated with in vivo data

SUBSTRATE IVBA% REFERENCES
Flanders soil
91±4
[29,43,60,61,63,64,82,84,109]RBALP (Gastric)
Oker 11 soil
56±4
 
47 Omaha community smelter soils, US
68-69 (average)
 
HER-2930 smelter soil, US
69±1.5 (using Dr Drexler’s Pb levels)
 
 
85±1.1 (using EPA’s average bulk Pb levels)
 
17 residential soils, tailings, and slags from mining waste sites, US
14±1.7 to 90±3.1
 
1 NIST paint
75±3.8
 
1 Galena
6±2.3
 
8 shooting range soils, US
83±1 to 100±3
 
20 soils from the N-S transect, US (agricultural, grazing land, open range, forested land, residential, desert)
3.7 to 39
 
70 samples of tap water particles
1.5 to 100
 
9 soils from mining sites*
3.1±0.1 to 99.3±14.3
[86]RIVM (Intestinal)
1 NIST paint* + soil
86.2 ± 2.3
 
1 Galena*
1.7 ± 0.2
 
15 mining soils, France
9-75 (Intestinal)
[65,66,95,133,134]UBM
10 smelting soils, France
34-90 (Intestinal)
 
27 urban topsoils, France
11-63 (Intestinal)
 
12 soils (mining, composite, phosphate-treated), 1 dust, from various studies (European and North American)
0.6±0.1 to 112.8±18.5 (Gastric)
 
 
0.1±0.1 to 89.5±91.3 (Intestinal)
 
2 urban residential soils, Australia
20.0±4.0 to 26.1±6.5
[67,68,112]SBRC (Intestinal)
3 domestic incinerator soils, Australia
11.7±2.8 to 22.5±5.0
 
 
3.2±2.6 to 8.5±0.6
 
Brushal, Carl-1, Hamburg, and Oker-11 soils§
30.7±6.1 to 62.9±11.0
 
9 shooting range soils, Australia
21.3-102.6
 
 
59±3.7 to 92±9.0 (3 soils)
 
5 historical fill soils, Australia
5.5-26.1 (4 soils)
 
 
10.7±0.7 to 16.6±1.1 (2 soils)
 
13 mining/smelting soils, Australia
11.6-82.5
 
 
31±18.4 to 74±17.3 (3 soils)
 
1 gasworks, Australia
27.2
 
 
27±1.6
 
1 geogenic, Australia 12.5  

*Same test materials as in RBALP studies, 0.06 g;§soils tested by Marschner et al.[62];Smith, et al.[68].