Environmental Health Criteria 214
Environmental Health Criteria 214
Environmental Health Criteria 214
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HUMAN EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT<br />
devices, and observation. Methods have only recently begun to be<br />
developed for assessing the role of time-activity patterns on dietary<br />
and non-dietary ingestion and dermal exposure pathways. Concerns about<br />
the ability of data collection methods to ensure activity<br />
representativeness and data validity and about the implications of<br />
inter- and intra-person variability in behaviour place limits on the<br />
application of time-activity data for human exposure assessment.<br />
However, with appropriate quality assurance programmes, information on<br />
time use and activity patterns can be very valuable for interpreting<br />
and modelling exposures.<br />
Table 16. Type of information obtained from time-activity data<br />
relevant to specific exposure pathways<br />
Personal air<br />
Water<br />
Food<br />
Soil<br />
time and location spent outdoors<br />
type of indoor location<br />
use of sources<br />
In the presence of sources:<br />
ventilation and filtration of indoor location<br />
6. HUMAN EXPOSURE AND DOSE MODELLING<br />
6.1 Introduction<br />
quantity of water consumed direct and indirectly<br />
accidental ingestion from swimming (pools, rivers,<br />
etc.)<br />
dermal contact, time in showering/bathing<br />
hand/body washing frequency<br />
amount and type of food products consumed<br />
preparation methods including cleaning<br />
preparation location (e.g., street vendors)<br />
storage practices<br />
amount of contact time and type of soil<br />
(e.g., farm, garden/possible pesticide<br />
application)<br />
skin surface contact<br />
frequency and duration of washing since contact<br />
An exposure model is a logical or empirical construct which<br />
allows estimation of individual or population exposure parameters from<br />
available input data. Such data may be measured or collected for this<br />
purpose, or obtained from other sources. Technological, logistic and<br />
financial constraints can make it difficult to monitor the exposure of<br />
humans to the various environmental agents. It is, therefore, prudent<br />
in many situations to use models to assess contaminant exposures.<br />
Models provide an analytic structure for combining data of different<br />
types collected from disparate studies in a manner that may make more<br />
complete use of the existing information on a particular contaminant<br />
than is possible from direct study methods (EC, 1997b). Exposure<br />
models, if supported by adequate observations, can be used to estimate<br />
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