This area of our research focuses on the dermal pathway as a primary route of human exposure to soil-borne contaminants. A survey of Superfund risk assessments has demonstrated that risks associated with the dermal pathway are often predicted to be significant if traditional default exposure factor values are used. This finding provides much of the impetus for the work described here.
This page branches into two general categories: (1) Soil Contact and (2) Absorption. The soil exposure section contains information from laboratory, greenhouse, and field studies, as well as abstracts from articles regarding the behavioral aspects of human exposure to soil. The Absorption link will forward you to pages containing summaries of and/or images from studies concerned with modeling of dermal absorption and the effect of soil loading on dermal uptake of soil-borne contaminants.
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