Table 5.
Estimated cancer risk associated with exposure to pesticides from milk in per million populations of adults and children from five different sites of India at lower bound (LB) and upper bound (UB) approaches.
Pesticide | CSFb | Bangalore | Bhubaneswar | Guwahati | Ludhiana | Udaipur | |||||||||||||||
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Adult | Child | Adult | Child | Adult | Child | Adult | Child | Adult | Child | ||||||||||||
LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | LB | UB | ||
γ-HCH | 1300 | 2.7 | 22.4 | 16.0 | 130 | — | — | — | 0.71 | 5.64 | 4.2 | 33.8 | 1.2 | 74 | 7.3 | 440 | 0.52 | 51 | 13 | 310 | |
DDT | 340 | 7.3 | 110 | 44 | 640 | 8.2 | 45 | 49 | 270 | 5.8 | 59 | 50 | 360 | 25 | 400 | 150 | 2400 | 7.6 | 270 | 190 | 1600 |
bCancer SlopeFactor (ng g-1 per d)-1 as per USEPA, LB-lower bound, UB-Upper bound