Exposure assessment of consumer products: human body weights and total body surface areas to use, and sources of data for specific products

Vet Hum Toxicol. 1991 Feb;33(1):61-5.

Abstract

A thorough understanding of the routes and magnitudes of chemical exposures that consumers experience during the use of a household product is needed as part of a well-founded risk assessment for that product and its components. This review describes some sources of generic consumer data (eg, relevant body weight or total body surface area for a given human age), and exposure-related data (eg, task frequency and duration) for specific product types needed for exposure assessments. The review also contains a discussion of the importance of statistical characterization of the consumer data (eg, does its range follow a normal, log-normal, or other type of distribution?). The importance of examining these data for correlative interactions is emphasized.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Body Surface Area
  • Body Weight / drug effects
  • Consumer Product Safety*
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • Environmental Pollutants / adverse effects*
  • Household Products / adverse effects*
  • Household Products / statistics & numerical data
  • Humans
  • Risk Factors

Substances

  • Environmental Pollutants