Updated general exposure factors for risk assessment in the Korean population.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There has been an increasing need to update the recommended values of Korean exposure factors for adults aged 19 and older, as using exposure factors developed over a decade ago could reduce risk assessment reliability.

Objective

Exposure factor data have been compiled and standardized using the latest national statistical reports and academic literature, as well as studies conducted from 2016 to 2018.

Methods

The updated data contained anthropometric parameters, inhalation rates, food and drinking water ingestion rates, and time-activity patterns and provided technical information on Koreans' exposure factors classified by sex, age group, per capita and general population, and doer-only for various exposure assessments.

Results

Although the average

SUBMITTER: Yoon H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10733140 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature