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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Int. 2017 Dec 16;112:77–84. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2017.12.008

Table 1.

Data on tolerable daily intakes, uncertainty factors, metabolites, and metabolite detection limits from the 2013–2014 NHANES cycle.

Phthalate
(parent)		 Tolerable
daily intakes
(μg/kg/d)		 Uncertainty
factors		 Metabolite Limit of
detection in
NHANES
(ng/mL)		 Number of
samples below
the limit of
detection (%)
di-n-butyl
phthalate
(DBP) 		10a 200a monobutyl phthalate (MBP)g 0.4 43 (1.6)
diisobutyl
phthalate
(DIBP) 		1250b 100b monoisobutyl phthalate (MIBP)g 0.8 72 (2.7)
butyl benzyl
phthalate
(BBP) 		500c 100c monobenzyl phthalate (MBZP)g 0.3 63 (2.4)
di(2-
ethylhexyl)
phthalate
(DEHP) 		50d 100d mono(2-ethyl-5-carboxypentyl) phthalate (MECPP)g 0.4 6 (0.2)
mono(2-ethyl-5-oxohexyl) phthalate (MEOHP)g 0.2 13 (0.5)
mono(2-ethyl-5-hydroxyhexyl) phthalate (MEHHP)g 0.4 9 (0.3)
mono(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (MEHP)g 0.8 1003 (37.66)
diisononyl
phthalate
(DINP) 		150e 100e monoisononyl phthalate (MINP)h 0.9 1586 (59.56)
mono(carboxyoctyl) phthalate (MCOP)g 0.3 3 (0.1)
diisodecyl
phthalate
(DIDP) 		130f 100f mono(carboxynonyl) phthalate (MCNP)h 0.2 32 (1.2)
a

(EFSA, 2005a);

b

(Saillenfait et al., 2008);

c

(EFSA, 2005b);

d

(EFSA, 2005c);

e

(EFSA, 2005d);

f

(CPSC, 2010);