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Table 6.2 (continued)

Mean
ingestion
rate (mg/d)
( ∗ )

Median
ingestion
rate (mg/d)
( ∗ )

Data
used

Number of
children

Age
(years)

Season/
climate References Area Duration Method

Calabrese
and
Stanek
( 1995 )

122 Idem Calabrese et al. ( 1989 )+

reduction of the magnitude
of error in the individual
trace element ingestion
estimates

Stanek and
Calabrese
( 1995b )

Calabrese
et al.
( 1989 );
Davis
et al.
( 1990 )

229 2-4 in

Calabrese
et al.
( 1989 )
and 4.7
in
Davis
et al.
( 1990 )

113 37 Data from two

studies for
children, one
from
Washington and
one from
Massachusetts

Best Tracer Method (BTM)

Sedman and
Mahmood
( 1994 )

195 Mass balance approach:

dividing the excess tracer
intake (i.e., quantity of
tracer recovered in the
faeces in excess of the
measured intake) by the
average concentration of
tracer in soil samples from
each child's dwelling