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Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident
In this study, a long-term health risk assessment was conducted for complex, multimedia exposure where the exposure duration was set for the leak of a hazardous chemical spilled after an accident. The study designed a virtual chemical accident scenario where 40 tons of benzyl chloride leaked in a fa...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277139/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32414009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103385 |
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author | Hong, Hyong Jin Park, Si Hyun Lim, Hui Been Lee, Cheol Min |
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description | In this study, a long-term health risk assessment was conducted for complex, multimedia exposure where the exposure duration was set for the leak of a hazardous chemical spilled after an accident. The study designed a virtual chemical accident scenario where 40 tons of benzyl chloride leaked in a factory inside the Ulsan Petrochemical Industrial Complex for one hour on 1 January 2017. Using a multimedia environmental dynamics model, benzyl chloride concentrations in air and soil were estimated. The time when the atmospheric concentration was less than or equal to the background concentration was recorded as the end point. An assessment of the cancer risk via soil ingestion was carried out after dividing the subjects into four age groups (0–9 years; 10–18 years; 19–65 years; >65 years). All age groups showed an increased cancer risk where the values exceeded 1.0 × 10(−6). The 0–9 years age group showed the largest distribution (4.27% of the total area) with the highest maximum and mean values. The distribution maps for all age groups exhibited a trend towards the southeast of the accident site. |
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spelling | pubmed-72771392020-06-15 Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident Hong, Hyong Jin Park, Si Hyun Lim, Hui Been Lee, Cheol Min Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In this study, a long-term health risk assessment was conducted for complex, multimedia exposure where the exposure duration was set for the leak of a hazardous chemical spilled after an accident. The study designed a virtual chemical accident scenario where 40 tons of benzyl chloride leaked in a factory inside the Ulsan Petrochemical Industrial Complex for one hour on 1 January 2017. Using a multimedia environmental dynamics model, benzyl chloride concentrations in air and soil were estimated. The time when the atmospheric concentration was less than or equal to the background concentration was recorded as the end point. An assessment of the cancer risk via soil ingestion was carried out after dividing the subjects into four age groups (0–9 years; 10–18 years; 19–65 years; >65 years). All age groups showed an increased cancer risk where the values exceeded 1.0 × 10(−6). The 0–9 years age group showed the largest distribution (4.27% of the total area) with the highest maximum and mean values. The distribution maps for all age groups exhibited a trend towards the southeast of the accident site. MDPI 2020-05-13 2020-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7277139/ /pubmed/32414009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103385 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hong, Hyong Jin Park, Si Hyun Lim, Hui Been Lee, Cheol Min Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title | Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title_full | Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title_fullStr | Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title_full_unstemmed | Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title_short | Development on Health Risk Assessment Method for Multi-Media Exposure of Hazardous Chemical by Chemical Accident |
title_sort | development on health risk assessment method for multi-media exposure of hazardous chemical by chemical accident |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7277139/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32414009 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17103385 |
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