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ECOTOXICOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY
Volume 116, Issue -, Pages 129-136Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoenv.2015.03.011
Keywords
Trihalomethanes; Chloroform; Risk assessment; Disinfection byproducts; Public health
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- Higher Education Commission of Pakistan [20-613/RD/06/755]
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Life-time human health risk of cancer attributed to trihalomethanes in drinking water in an urban-industrialized area of Karachi (Pakistan) was conducted through multiple pathways of exposure. The extent of cancer risk was compared with USEPA guidelines. Human health cancer risk for total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) through ingestion and dermal routes were estimated in acceptable-low risk ( >= 1.0E-06; <= 5.10E-05), whereas through inhalation route it was estimated under acceptable-high risk ( >= 5.10E 05; <= 1.0E-04) category. However, at some industrial-urban areas cancer risk for CHCl3 were estimated under unacceptable risk (>= 1.0E-04) through inhalation route. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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