High arsenic contamination in the breast milk of mothers inhabiting the Gangetic plains of Bihar: a major health risk to infants

Table 2 References of the health risk assessment studies

Parameters	Female	Children	References
IR	2.5	0.741	USEPA, 2008 & USEPA,2014
ED	67	0.25	Narsimha and Rajith,2018 & USEPA, 2008
EF	365	182	USEPA,2014
BW	55	7.4	USEPA, 2008 & ICMR,2009
AT	24,455	45.5	USEPA, 2008 & USEPA,2014
C(mg/L)			Present study

IR = Ingestion rate ED = Exposure duration EF = Exposure frequency BW = Body weight AT = Average time

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