title: Exposure assessment of consumer products: human body weights and total body surface areas to use, and sources of data for specific products.
abstract: A thorough understanding of the routes and magnitudes of chemical exposures that consumers experience during the use of a household product is needed as part of a well-founded risk assessment for that product and its components. This review describes some sources of generic consumer data (eg, relevant body weight or total body surface area for a given human age), and exposure-related data (eg, task frequency and duration) for specific product types needed for exposure assessments. The review also contains a discussion of the importance of statistical characterization of the consumer data (eg, does its range follow a normal, log-normal, or other type of distribution?). The importance of examining these data for correlative interactions is emphasized.
authors.affiliation: Procter & Gamble Company, Paper Technology Division, Cincinnati, Ohio.
authors.forename: P J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Hakkinen
authors.forename: C K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Kelling
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Callender
mesh_terms: D001830:Body Surface Area; D001835:Body Weight / Q000187:drug effects; D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006795:Household Products / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors
chemical_list: D004785:Environmental Pollutants