Appendix D Food Codes for NHANES - OEHHA

Scientific Review Panel Draft February, 2012
loading of 5 mg/cm 2 . At 24 hrs, the mean total percent dermal absorption
including the skin depot was 14.8 and 56.4% with and without soil, respectively.
The fraction of total absorbed BaP that entered the diffusion cell in 24 hrs was
7.2 and 11% with and without soil, respectively.
B. Supporting Studies
Yang et al. (1989) studied the in vivo systemic absorption in rats of BaP in soil,
fortified with petroleum crude oil (1 percent (w/w)) to which 3 H-BaP was added.
The soil, which consisted of 46 percent sand, 18 percent clay and 36 percent silt,
with an organic content of 1.6 percent, was sieved to a particle size