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. 2020 May 15;10:8054. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-65030-z

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
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