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Graph of Sensibility
Prevision: Direct Total Exposure
Inhalation of air 50.4%
Vegetation 49.5%
Soil ingestion 0.1%
Dermal absorption 0.0%
Inhalation of
resuspended 0.0%
Particles 0.0%

0% 25% 50% 75% 100%
Measured as contribution to variance

FIGURE 5.8 Distribution of total direct exposure.

TABLE 5.4
a
PCDD/Fs Exposure by Different Ways of Direct Exposure of the Population
Living in Proximity of the MSWI
Percentiles
Mean SD 10th 50th 90th

Soil ingestion 3.01 ¥ 10 –5 3.37 ¥ 10 –5 5.49 ¥ 10 –6 1.98 ¥ 10 –5 6.69 ¥ 10 –5
Vegetable 7.95 ¥ 10 –4 9.09 ¥ 10 –4 1.36 ¥ 10 –4 5.11 ¥ 10 –4 1.76 ¥ 10 –3
ingestion
Inhalation of 1.37 ¥ 10 –6 6.53 ¥ 10 –7 5.73 ¥ 10 –7 1.28 ¥ 10 –6 2.31 ¥ 10 –6
resuspended
particles
Inhalation of 1.19 ¥ 10 –3 5.53 ¥ 10 –4 5.20 ¥ 10 –4 1.11 ¥ 10 –3 1.98 ¥ 10 –3
air
Dermal 2.15 ¥ 10 –9 2.00 ¥ 10 –9 3.78 ¥ 10 –10 1.53 ¥ 10 –9 4.70 ¥ 10 –9
absorption
Total direct 2.02 ¥ 10 –3 1.07 ¥ 10 –3 6.62 ¥ 10 –4 1.64 ¥ 10 –3 3.81 ¥ 10 –3
exposure
a ng I-TEQ/day.

TABLE 5.5
a
PCDD/Fs Dose for Population Living around the Incinerator
Percentiles
Mean SD 10th 50th 90th
Direct 3.24 ¥ 10 –5 1.80 ¥ 10 –5 1.46 ¥ 10 –5 2.87 ¥ 10 –5 5.37 ¥ 10 –5
dose
a ng I-TEQ/day/kg.

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