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. 2013 Mar;29(1):69–79. doi: 10.5487/TR.2013.29.1.069

Table 6.

Daily doses and non-carcinogenic risk for child residents

Metal Ingestion of Sediment

Central Tendency Exposure (CTE) Reasonable Maximum Exposure (RME)

CADD LADD Hazard index CADD LADD Hazard index

As 3.25E-05 2.78E-06 1.08E-01 1.94E-04 1.67E-05 6.48E-01
Cd 5.98E-06 5.13E-07 1.20E-02 3.58E-05 3.07E-06 7.16E-02
Cr(VI) 2.10E-03 1.80E-04 7.01E-01 1.26E-02 1.08E-03 4.20
Cu 1.57E-03 1.35E-04 4.24E-02 9.40E-03 8.05E-04 2.54E-01
Pb 2.86E-04 2.45E-05 7.95E-02 1.71E-03 1.47E-04 4.76E-01
Hg 5.02E-06 4.30E-07 1.67E-02 3.00E-05 2.58E-06 1.00E-01
Ni 3.69E-05 3.16E-06 1.84E-03 2.21E-04 1.89E-05 1.10E-02
Zn 4.16E-05 3.56E-06 1.39E-04 2.49E-04 2.13E-05 8.29E-04
Dermal Contact with Sediment

As 1.91E-06 1.64E-07 6.38E-03 2.33E-05 2.00E-06 7.78E-02
Cd 1.18E-08 1.01E-09 2.35E-05 1.43E-07 1.23E-08 2.87E-04
Cr(VI) 4.13E-05 3.54E-06 1.38E-02 5.04E-04 4.32E-05 1.68E-01
Cu 3.09E-05 2.64E-06 8.34E-04 3.76E-04 3.23E-05 1.02E-02
Pb 5.62E-06 4.82E-07 1.56E-03 6.85E-05 5.88E-06 1.90E-02
Hg 9.87E-07 8.46E-08 3.29E-03 1.20E-05 1.03E-06 4.01E-02
Ni 7.24E-07 6.21E-08 3.62E-05 8.83E-06 7.57E-07 4.42E-04
Zn 8.17E-07 7.00E-08 2.72E-06 9.96E-06 8.53E-07 3.32E-05