Amount of dust ingested

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Scope

The scope of this variable is to produce the distribution of the dust amount ingested by adult women and young children (0-12 months).

Definition

Data

Several studies on the amount of dust ingested reviewed and reported by Oomen et al. [1]

Dependencies

Unit

g/day

Result

Adult women: uniform(0.00056, 0.1)

Young children: uniform(0.02,0.2)

References

  1. Oomen, A.G., Janssen, P.J.C.M., Dusseldorp, A., Noorlander, C.W. 2008 Exposure to chemicals via house dust. RIVM Report 609021064/2008. http://www.rivm.nl/bibliotheek/rapporten/609021064.pdf