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exposure pathway

[ik′spō·zhər ‚path·wā]

(medicine)

The mode of intake of a substance; for example, inhalation, ingestion, or absorption.

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Risk assessment and management

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Exposure in the figure is adjusted for bioavailability of Pb in each exposure pathway.

Children's Lead Exposure: A Multimedia Modeling Analysis to Guide Public Health Decision-Making

If the examined characteristics of outbreak and sporadic cases are different for these data, then the assumption of similar exposure pathways is less plausible.

Comparing characteristics of sporadic and outbreak-associated foodborne illnesses, United States, 2004-2011

A range of exposure pathways associated with wastewater irrigation was identified in the reviewed studies, illustrated in Figure 1 (Table 1; see also Tables S1 and S2).

A review of health risks and pathways for exposure to wastewater use in agriculture

In our bottom-up approach, the predominant exposure pathway is diet, which in all age groups contributes 85-95% of the [[summation].

Insights into PBDE uptake, body burden, and elimination gained from Australian age-concentration trends observed shortly after peak exposure

The other important exposure pathway is direct ingestion of radon in water.

U.S. EPA Proposals for Regulating Radon in Drinking Water Indoor Air

Twenty-two publications investigated the paraoccupational exposure pathway, 13 with residential dust samples only, 6 with biological samples only, and 3 with both (Table 1).

A review of nonoccupational pathways for pesticide exposure in women living in agricultural areas

MDH also looked at whether any completed exposure pathways existed and whether any completed exposure pathways might exist in the future.

Coal tar remediation in an urban environment: a model for community collaboration

The dominant exposure pathway is incidental ingestion of lead-rich soil and dust particles by hand-mouth transmission and of inhaled dust particles cleared from the respiratory tract.

Linking geological and health sciences to assess childhood lead poisoning from artisanal gold mining in Nigeria

This multimedia transport pathway evaluation must occur before addressing the other questions raised by the exposure pathway analysis.

A public health assessment tool used to analyze the health and safety effects of a major landfill landslide

Exposure pathway Variable Baseline value Inhalation Dermal DEHP concentration in 2.

Predicting residential exposure to phthalate plasticizer emitted from vinyl flooring: sensitivity, uncertainty, and implications for biomonitoring

We used this analysis to assess the prospects for emissions reductions and to identify gaps in present understanding of the Hg exposure pathway.

Sources of mercury exposure for U.S. Seafood consumers: implications for policy

2008a) stated recently that dust ingestion is a pertinent exposure pathway for HBCD, and a significant positive correlation was reported between concentrations of PBDEs in house dust and diet and those in human milk (Wu et al.

Exposure to hexabromocyclododecanes (HBCDs) via dust ingestion, but not diet, correlates with concentrations in human serum: preliminary results