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. 2022 Mar 14;298:134027. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.134027

Table 1.

Values of parameters used for calculating health risk assessment through oral and dermal exposures.

Parameters Units Children Adult Reference
Ingestion Rate (IR) L/day 0.64 2 Xiao et al., 2019
Exposure Frequency (EF) days/year 365 Subba Rao et al., 2019
Exposure Duration (ED) years 6 70 USEPA, 2011
Body Weight (BW) kg 20 70 Tokatli and Ustaoğlu, 2020
Averaging Time (AT) days 2190 25550 Jehan et al., 2020
Skin Area (SA) cm2 6600 18000 Tokatli and Ustaoğlu, 2020
Permeability Coefficient (Kp) cm/h 0.002 for Cr and 0.001 for other metals Qu et al., 2018
Exposure Time (ET) h/day 1 0.58 Naz et al., 2016
Conversion Factor (CF) L/cm3 0.001 Tokatli and Ustaoğlu, 2020
Reference dose (RfD) (μg/kg/day) Ingestion: 0.3 for As, 1.4 for Pb, 0.5 for Cd, 40 for Cu, 300 for Zn, 300 for Fe, 3 for Cr Wu et al., 2009
Dermal absorption: 0.123 for As, 0.42 for Pb, 0.005 for Cd, 12 for Cu, 60 for Zn, 45 for Fe, 0.015 for Cr