Whole-body to tissue concentration ratios for use in biota dose assessments for animals.
Radiat Environ Biophys
; 49(4): 549-65, 2010 Nov.
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ABSTRACT
Environmental monitoring programs often measure contaminant concentrations in animal tissues consumed by humans (e.g., muscle). By comparison, demonstration of the protection of biota from the potential effects of radionuclides involves a comparison of whole-body doses to radiological dose benchmarks. Consequently, methods for deriving whole-body concentration ratios based on tissue-specific data are required to make best use of the available information. This paper provides a series of look-up tables with whole-bodytissue-specific concentration ratios for non-human biota. Focus was placed on relatively broad animal categories (including molluscs, crustaceans, freshwater fishes, marine fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals) and commonly measured tissues (specifically, bone, muscle, liver and kidney). Depending upon organism, whole-body to tissue concentration ratios were derived for between 12 and 47 elements. The whole-body to tissue concentration ratios can be used to estimate whole-body concentrations from tissue-specific measurements. However, we recommend that any given whole-body to tissue concentration ratio should not be used if the value falls between 0.75 and 1.5. Instead, a value of one should be assumed.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Contaminação Radioativa de Alimentos
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Monitoramento de Radiação
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Monitoramento Ambiental
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Exposição Ambiental
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Animals
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Radiat Environ Biophys
Ano de publicação:
2010
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá