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Appendix D Food Codes for NHANES - OEHHA

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Scientific Review PanelSRP Draft Version 2 February,June 2012<br />

maternal daily intake, an estimate of the half-life (t 1/2) of PCDDs/PCDFs and<br />

PCBs and body weight-normalized (BW) proportionality factors. The chemical<br />

concentration in breast milk can be calculated by equation J-4:<br />

Cm = (Emi)(t1/2)(f1)(f3)/(f2)(0.693) Eq. J-4<br />

Cm = chemical concentration in milk (mg/kg milk)<br />

Emi = average daily maternal intake of contaminant (mg/kg-BW/day)<br />

t½ = biological half-life (days)<br />

f1 = proportion of chemical in mother that partitions into fat (e.g. 0.8)<br />

f2 = proportion of mother’s body weight that is fat (e.g. 0.33 = kg-fat/kg-<br />

BW)<br />

f3 = proportion of breast milk that is fat (e.g., 0.04 = kg-fat/kg-milk)<br />

Smith’s approach requires an estimate of the biological half-life of PCBs and<br />

PCDDs/PCDFs in the adult human and is restricted to poorly metabolized,<br />

lipophilic chemicals that act predominantly by partitioning into the fat component<br />

and quickly reaching equilibrium in each body tissue (including breast milk).<br />

Because of Milbrath’s approach, Tco-estimates <strong>for</strong> dioxins, furans and dioxin-like<br />

PCBs apply the following conservative assumptions regarding factors that affect<br />

elimination rates:<br />

• lower enzyme induction based on nonsmokers with a body burden<br />

below 700 ppt in the blood<br />

• adult age<br />

• no recent history of breast-feeding<br />

• body fat estimates based on older adults<br />

Transfer coefficients (Ng, 1982) are ideally calculated from the concentration of<br />

contaminant in milk following relatively constant long-term exposure that<br />

approximates steady state conditions. Because Smith’s equation is linear, it can<br />

be rearranged to solve ratio of the chemical concentration in milk to the chemical<br />

taken into the body per day, which is the transfer coefficient (Equation J-5).<br />

Tco = Cm/(Cf)(I) Eq J-5<br />

Tco is the transfer coefficient (day/kg or day/liter)<br />

Cm = measured chemical concentration in milk (µg/kg or mg/liter milk)<br />

Cf = measured chemical concentration in exposure media (e.g. food)<br />

(µg/kg food)<br />

I = reported daily intake of exposure media (kg/day of food)<br />

The following equation (Eq-J-6) is equation Eq J-5 substituted into equation Eq J-<br />

4 and rearranged to solve <strong>for</strong> Tco.<br />

J-15

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