Main Title |
Exposure factors handbook : project summary / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Health and Environmental Assessment, Center for Environmental Research Information |
Year Published |
1990 |
Report Number |
EPA 600-S8-89-043 |
OCLC Number |
21767207 |
Subjects |
Hazardous substances--Risk assessment--Handbooks, manuals, etc
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJBD |
EPA 600-S8-89-043 |
In Binder |
Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
10/10/2018 |
ELBD ARCHIVE |
EPA 600-S8-89-043 |
In Binder Received from HQ |
AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
10/04/2023 |
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Collation |
3 pages ; 28 cm |
Notes |
Caption title. At head of title: Project Summary. "EPA/600-S8-89-043." "Apr. 1990." "Office of Health and Environmental Assessment." |
Contents Notes |
This document provides a summary of the available data on various factors used in assessing human exposure including drinking water consumption, consumption rates of broad classes of food including fruits, vegetables, beef, dairy products, and fish; soil ingestion; inhalation rate; skin area; lifetime; activity patterns; and body weight. Additionally, a number of specific exposure scenarios are identified with recommendations for default values to use when site-specific data are not available. The basic equations using these parameters to calculate exposure levels are also presented for each scenario. Default values are presented as rays from typical to reasonable worst case and as frequency distributions where appropriate data were available. Finally, procedures for assessing the uncertainties in exposure assessments are also presented with illustrative examples. These procedures include qualitative and quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo and sensitivity analysis. |