 Estimating Dermal Uptake of Nonionic Organic Chemicals from Water and Soil: I. Unified Fugacity‐Based Models for Risk AssessmentsThomas E. McKone and Robert A. Howd Risk Analysis, 1992, vol. 12, issue 4, 543-557 Abstract: Contamination of water and soil that might eventually contact human skin makes it imperative to include the dermal uptake route in efforts to assess potential environmental health risks. Direct measurements of dermal uptake from either water or soil are only available for a small number of the thousands of chemicals likely to be found in the environment. We propose here a mass‐transfer model for estimating skin permeability and dermal uptake for organic chemicals that contaminate soil and water. Statistical relationships between measured permeabilities and chemical properties reveal that permeability varies primarily with the octanol‐water partition coefficient (Kow)and secondarily with the molecular weight. From these results, we derive a fugacity‐based model for skin permeability that addresses the inherent permeability of the skin, the interaction of the skin with the environmental medium on skin (water or soil), and retains a relatively simple algebraic form. Model predictions are compared to measured human skin permeabilities for some 50 compounds in water and four compounds in soil. The model is adjusted to account for dermal uptake during both short‐term (10‐20 min)and long‐term (several hour)exposures. This model is recommended for compounds with molecular weight less than or equal to 280 g. Date: 1992 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:riskan:v:12:y:1992:i:4:p:543-557 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Risk Analysis from John Wiley & Sons |
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