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Table 3 Dietary pesticide exposure estimates for specific population subgroups (ng/kg/day) a

From: Chronic dietary exposure to pesticide residues in the United States

Pesticide

US General

6–11 month

M/F 2 years

M/F 6 years

M/F 10 year

F 14–16

Acephate

18.4281

17.2302

42.6352

29.8366

17.0595

8.5112

Atrazine

0.0072

0.0103

0.0203

0.0096

0.0052

0.0047

Azinphos-methyl

11.1229

32.5191

82.2131

47.7940

26.9670

9.1684

Azoxystrobin

1.1496

0.8092

4.6546

2.2937

2.1211

1.1600

Benomyl

9.2942

57.5515

70.8385

34.5814

17.4725

7.3732

Bifenthrin

0.9997

2.8008

2.1272

1.6090

0.6109

0.3124

Biphenyl

0.3963

0.8070

1.4732

1.1553

0.6452

0.4489

Captan

9.6072

7.0953

72.0200

34.5332

21.3902

9.9809

Carbaryl

10.2073

64.3193

83.9221

41.4619

18.4712

11.6797

Carbofuran

0.3657

0.2989

1.2256

1.3252

0.4160

0.1333

Chlordane (total)

0.0992

0.0698

0.1761

0.1504

0.1270

0.0739

Chlordane, cis

0.0479

0.0220

0.0914

0.0790

0.0598

0.0378

Chlordane, trans

0.0125

0.0146

0.0234

0.0172

0.0198

0.0086

Nonachlor, trans

0.0367

0.0296

0.0585

0.0511

0.0461

0.0267

Octachlor epoxide

0.0020

0.0036

0.0028

0.0032

0.0012

0.0007

Chloropropham

287.7204

242.2743

981.7293

785.8608

528.4143

351.6736

Chlorothalonil

0.1205

0.0000

0.2162

0.1754

0.1824

0.0259

Chlorpyrifos

2.3760

2.5690

9.8882

5.5129

3.8547

2.2513

Chlorpyrifos-methyl

12.7964

12.4004

40.6889

37.3143

23.2516

13.4883

Clopyralid

0.8296

2.3563

5.2877

3.2069

1.8738

0.6758

Coumaphos

0.0068

0.0025

0.0218

0.0109

0.0014

0.0028

Cyfluthrin

0.2220

0.0079

0.1208

0.1013

0.1664

0.0467

Cypermethrin

8.9699

8.1437

17.1238

10.4601

3.8659

6.0168

Cyprodinil

12.9971

11.9101

119.2924

47.1034

31.9188

14.6596

2,4-D

0.6738

0.5266

2.1795

1.8683

1.1665

0.5975

DCPA

0.2398

0.1450

0.5591

0.3654

0.2523

0.1717

DDT, total

6.6482

8.0532

23.1850

18.0708

11.8551

6.3338

DDE, p, p’

5.9085

7.3662

21.6413

16.9921

11.1399

5.7689

DDT, o, p’

0.0120

0.0062

0.0156

0.0098

0.0070

0.0100

DDT, p, p’

0.1471

0.3271

0.6385

0.3535

0.2306

0.1427

TDE, o, p’

0.0258

0.0530

0.0241

0.0231

0.0076

0.0122

TDE, p, p’

0.5547

0.3008

0.8654

0.6923

0.4700

0.4000

DEF

0.1086

0.0153

0.4647

0.3953

0.2353

0.1265

Diazinon

0.2394

0.0658

0.3905

0.3455

0.2217

0.2152

Dicamba

0.7488

2.2202

4.8366

3.0227

1.8074

0.6574

Dichloran, total

2.9128

6.4696

5.3965

3.9703

3.9514

1.6418

Dichloran

2.8691

6.4696

5.3180

3.9066

3.8853

1.6323

2,4-Dichloro-6-nitrobenzeneamine

0.0437

0.0000

0.0784

0.0636

0.0662

0.0094

Dicofol, total

0.3547

0.4972

1.5264

0.9061

0.6697

0.2927

Dicofol, o, p’

0.0345

0.0465

0.2390

0.1394

0.0934

0.0248

Dicofol, p, p’

0.3201

0.4508

1.2874

0.7667

0.5763

0.2679

Dieldrin

0.9841

1.5196

2.7181

2.1000

1.5493

0.7663

Dimethoate

1.5595

9.5053

6.1889

3.5457

1.8318

1.0376

Diphenylamine

79.6903

98.6515

606.5610

395.4847

180.9575

70.1601

Endosulfan, total

9.3737

11.0237

21.0158

16.0028

10.7486

6.8948

Endosulfan I

1.6268

1.8331

4.4537

3.0479

2.2759

1.4302

Endosulfan II

2.1831

2.4196

6.1116

4.1611

2.9966

1.8655

Endosulfan sulfate

5.5638

6.7710

10.4504

8.7938

5.4761

3.5992

Endrin

0.0228

0.0627

0.0158

0.0187

0.0025

0.0075

Esfenvalerate

0.0281

1.1880

0.1006

0.0843

0.0328

0.0416

Ethion, total

0.4912

0.1987

1.3184

1.3622

0.9313

0.6354

Ethion

0.4869

0.1979

1.3153

1.3588

0.9288

0.6332

Ethion, oxygen analog

0.0043

0.0008

0.0031

0.0035

0.0025

0.0022

Ethoxyquin

0.5940

0.0848

0.7868

1.6565

0.8585

1.0186

Famoxadone

0.1185

0.0042

0.0645

0.0541

0.0888

0.0249

Fenarimol

0.0196

0.0104

0.1187

0.0392

0.0066

0.0055

Fenhexamid

0.9919

0.8467

5.9062

2.5504

2.0440

1.0660

Fenitrothion

0.0132

0.0118

0.0191

0.0261

0.0146

0.0120

Fenoxaprop-ethyl

0.0002

0.1076

0.0002

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Fenpropathrin

3.3847

15.5940

25.9598

13.3071

7.3449

3.1080

Fenvalerate

0.3790

3.0032

1.0053

0.5161

0.2748

0.2500

Fludioxonil

21.1253

33.0302

66.5408

56.8803

13.5351

26.1458

Heptachlor

0.0593

0.0534

0.1478

0.1303

0.0978

0.0489

Imazalil

0.5742

0.1826

0.3263

0.1806

0.1094

0.0859

Iprodione, total

6.4931

11.0094

26.2975

18.0616

5.8599

7.8378

Iprodione

6.1491

10.3505

25.2904

17.2475

5.6553

7.4416

Iprodione metabolite

0.3441

0.6589

1.0071

0.8142

0.2046

0.3961

Lambda-cyhalothrin

0.6892

3.5221

1.2727

0.5294

0.2707

0.6808

Lindane

0.0693

0.0272

0.2586

0.2933

0.1840

0.0942

Linuron

0.2379

0.2362

0.5644

0.5572

0.3341

0.1655

Malathion

29.6982

24.4021

94.4458

89.6674

57.0931

29.6243

Metalaxyl

1.0858

0.7104

9.1932

3.6071

2.3705

1.1077

Methamidophos

7.9984

13.9201

15.9612

9.7545

7.1500

4.5228

Methidathion

0.9529

0.7878

5.6458

3.3187

2.2614

1.3605

Methomyl

1.9347

1.1424

6.5387

3.6508

3.0433

1.7831

Methoxychlor, total

0.0428

0.0244

0.1006

0.0846

0.0622

0.0199

Methoxychlor, o, p’

0.0173

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Methoxychlor, p, p’

0.0255

0.0244

0.1006

0.0846

0.0622

0.0198

Mirex

0.0020

0.0010

0.0040

0.0024

0.0042

0.0021

Omethoate

0.8798

3.6634

1.7655

1.0999

0.8271

0.5772

Oxamyl

0.0466

0.0024

0.0764

0.0775

0.0538

0.0211

Permethrin, total

73.4122

88.3346

101.6469

80.6081

28.9863

22.4073

Permethrin, cis

35.4246

42.4138

48.9996

38.7410

14.0356

11.0349

Permethrin, trans

37.9876

45.9208

52.6472

41.8671

14.9507

11.3723

Phenylphenol, ortho

11.3419

36.9188

22.7534

17.2762

13.4283

7.9713

Phosalone

0.0491

0.1417

0.0232

0.0477

0.0617

0.0561

Phosmet

4.7271

17.3239

19.7964

15.2866

4.9499

5.3718

Piperonyl butoxide

0.0029

1.5171

0.0307

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Pirimiphos-methyl

6.3524

2.0673

19.2953

19.6057

15.6757

4.3406

Procymidone

0.0247

0.0127

0.0508

0.0672

0.0407

0.0377

Propargite

11.6608

16.8366

55.0796

33.4737

6.9992

 

Propiconazole

0.0002

0.1076

0.0002

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

Quinclorac

1.0475

2.4162

3.8001

2.5547

1.6717

0.9916

Quinoxyfen

0.2185

0.1696

2.1860

0.8194

0.5358

0.2512

Quintozene

0.0743

0.0952

0.2157

0.1604

0.1027

0.0518

Tecnazene

0.0008

0.0003

0.0009

0.0008

0.0010

0.0008

Thiabendazole

77.7198

297.9485

615.7219

346.4239

157.2699

67.4992

Triadimefon

0.0033

0.0090

0.0348

0.0024

0.0058

0.0052

Triclopyr

0.0398

0.1179

0.2211

0.1905

0.1436

0.0520

Trifloxystrobin

0.3277

0.2543

3.2789

1.2290

0.8038

0.3767

Vinclozolin

0.8230

0.9713

2.9116

1.5535

1.1562

0.7111

M 14–16

F 25–30

M 25–30

F 40–45

M 40–45

F 60–65

M 60–65

F 70

M 70

16.6332

16.2023

15.7001

21.6464

16.1272

18.6599

17.3764

20.7385

24.0702

0.0047

0.0051

0.0053

0.0066

0.0067

0.0068

0.0085

0.0117

0.0138

8.3018

6.9344

7.9611

9.1004

7.1628

6.4063

10.6951

10.3453

12.4859

0.9070

1.0642

0.3536

1.3359

0.6003

1.4125

1.0705

1.1712

1.1343

5.7494

8.0872

5.3303

7.9251

5.6981

15.7172

8.8867

11.2131

9.4220

1.0640

0.8047

0.8643

0.7484

0.6973

1.7146

1.0494

1.3084

0.9522

0.4603

0.2670

0.2977

0.3111

0.3271

0.2688

0.3726

0.4180

0.4281

5.6579

7.1469

4.0346

9.5369

5.7625

7.9005

8.7611

9.7644

9.2733

10.4841

8.4267

6.1624

7.8695

7.7365

9.6286

8.2916

10.5855

8.9616

0.6874

0.2739

0.0836

0.3614

0.2877

0.2016

0.2547

0.3386

0.4815

0.0870

0.0689

0.0728

0.0768

0.0817

0.1271

0.0962

0.1116

0.1194

0.0416

0.0325

0.0372

0.0370

0.0383

0.0589

0.0503

0.0539

0.0607

0.0125

0.0091

0.0084

0.0095

0.0113

0.0177

0.0094

0.0132

0.0120

0.0313

0.0256

0.0257

0.0287

0.0306

0.0464

0.0347

0.0418

0.0441

0.0016

0.0016

0.0015

0.0016

0.0015

0.0042

0.0018

0.0026

0.0026

525.9805

249.3211

375.2243

191.8389

269.2749

116.9667

224.2651

158.1203

195.8510

0.1221

0.1160

0.0956

0.1034

0.0905

0.3776

0.1823

0.1505

0.1970

2.3484

1.8354

1.9704

2.3210

2.0765

4.0656

2.2079

2.4321

2.1384

19.1060

9.3327

12.5135

10.0469

11.2686

9.4714

10.4018

10.5705

11.0058

1.0531

0.5116

0.6111

0.4960

0.6298

0.6130

0.7019

1.0500

1.0474

0.0059

0.0055

0.0048

0.0056

0.0029

0.0589

0.0034

0.0073

0.0102

0.1485

0.1835

0.3236

0.3696

0.2331

0.3776

0.1847

0.1690

0.2134

7.3911

5.9054

7.3996

7.4440

5.7677

16.1349

12.9267

13.8612

9.2338

4.4096

9.4482

3.2211

12.4248

8.1982

13.2693

11.2770

15.4098

12.2943

0.8322

0.5248

0.6807

0.5106

0.5936

0.2281

0.6328

0.6007

0.6054

0.1457

0.2279

0.1898

0.2575

0.1982

0.2792

0.2255

0.2900

0.2151

10.0929

5.3405

5.8316

4.8189

5.9851

5.9422

6.5278

5.2919

5.3867

9.2297

4.6048

5.4149

4.1668

5.2854

5.1620

5.5193

4.4752

4.6449

0.0122

0.0092

0.0099

0.0120

0.0098

0.0188

0.0136

0.0129

0.0123

0.2212

0.1143

0.1368

0.1157

0.1290

0.1260

0.1384

0.1317

0.1387

0.0166

0.0240

0.0127

0.0230

0.0196

0.0365

0.0280

0.0404

0.0352

0.6132

0.5882

0.2573

0.5015

0.5414

0.5990

0.8284

0.6318

0.5557

0.1867

0.0914

0.1604

0.0800

0.0989

0.1099

0.0761

0.0407

0.0376

0.1779

0.2044

0.1988

0.2714

0.2196

0.3073

0.2134

0.1736

0.2062

1.0057

0.4768

0.5371

0.4497

0.6017

0.5380

0.6243

0.8806

0.8722

3.5281

2.6613

2.5448

2.4112

2.4526

6.1333

3.5399

2.9938

3.5544

3.4838

2.6193

2.5101

2.3737

2.4197

5.9964

3.4738

2.9392

3.4830

0.0235

0.0245

0.0219

0.0210

0.0225

0.0755

0.0320

0.0532

0.0526

0.2921

0.2439

0.2535

0.2669

0.2621

0.4260

0.3315

0.4221

0.3968

1.2978

0.7177

0.8500

0.7267

0.8265

1.1578

0.8707

1.0342

0.9787

1.3173

1.3197

1.0581

1.6276

1.3318

2.3255

1.2750

1.3512

1.5124

65.1788

48.8023

64.6768

70.0400

50.1053

21.8490

78.2527

64.3824

81.6502

10.0291

7.2010

8.0732

8.6182

7.8821

11.6984

8.2978

9.3896

9.2824

1.8862

1.2782

1.4997

1.4701

1.4373

1.5188

1.3303

1.3647

1.3876

2.7102

1.7453

2.0406

2.0020

1.7985

2.3578

1.8384

1.8595

1.8490

5.4327

4.1775

4.5329

5.1461

4.6463

7.8219

5.1291

6.1655

6.0459

0.0108

0.0202

0.0118

0.0198

0.0153

0.0323

0.0191

0.0384

0.0349

0.0329

0.0152

0.0231

0.0183

0.0161

0.1703

0.0291

0.0398

0.0277

0.9142

0.4462

0.5556

0.4021

0.4089

0.5313

0.2811

0.2328

0.2838

0.9111

0.4409

0.5519

0.3982

0.4049

0.5255

0.2792

0.2307

0.2810

0.0031

0.0053

0.0037

0.0039

0.0040

0.0057

0.0019

0.0020

0.0028

0.7313

0.6021

0.7855

0.6930

0.6076

2.0313

0.3458

0.2589

0.3347

0.0793

0.0980

0.1728

0.1973

0.1244

0.2016

0.0986

0.0902

0.1139

0.0032

0.0145

0.0184

0.0167

0.0156

0.0521

0.0155

0.0212

0.0312

0.6234

0.8525

0.2541

1.0779

0.5421

1.1354

0.8992

1.0622

0.9554

0.0091

0.0111

0.0110

0.0176

0.0114

0.0307

0.0082

0.0065

0.0057

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0130

0.0000

0.0000

0.0004

2.0885

2.1623

2.1035

3.0221

2.2667

3.5484

3.2033

3.4172

3.5806

0.2464

0.2754

0.2897

0.3427

0.3419

0.6703

0.4263

0.6357

0.7162

13.5739

18.9030

7.6395

24.7306

19.2154

18.2427

20.6759

27.8568

17.7320

0.0816

0.0474

0.0569

0.0443

0.0543

0.0740

0.0428

0.0483

0.0468

0.4188

0.3255

0.2403

0.5650

0.4071

0.6250

0.7987

1.5949

1.7592

3.7946

5.6403

2.2778

7.4015

5.6484

6.2786

6.2383

8.3525

5.5698

3.5852

5.3320

2.1398

6.9979

5.3389

5.9016

5.8986

7.9255

5.2641

0.2094

0.3083

0.1380

0.4036

0.3095

0.3771

0.3397

0.4270

0.3057

0.2008

0.4422

0.4518

0.8299

0.4960

1.7703

0.9220

0.8178

0.7633

0.1176

0.0677

0.0548

0.0509

0.0754

0.1302

0.0425

0.0358

0.0397

0.1302

0.2156

0.1544

0.2746

0.2104

0.3906

0.2221

0.1815

0.2134

42.7260

21.6705

29.3563

22.6826

26.6826

18.7036

25.9992

24.2481

25.5719

0.3646

0.7334

0.4357

1.0752

0.7592

1.1266

0.9553

1.2109

1.0349

6.0969

6.0924

7.5724

8.8198

7.6102

8.5927

8.3945

9.4966

10.7210

1.5486

0.7018

0.9954

0.6535

0.6442

0.2578

0.7235

0.9699

0.7849

1.5201

1.6876

1.0198

2.2454

1.3298

1.9276

1.7928

1.9009

1.8352

0.0331

0.0443

0.0364

0.0434

0.0402

0.0474

0.0454

0.0268

0.0340

0.0005

0.0215

0.0150

0.0220

0.0194

0.0042

0.0214

0.0118

0.0162

0.0326

0.0228

0.0214

0.0214

0.0208

0.0432

0.0241

0.0150

0.0178

0.0012

0.0017

0.0014

0.0016

0.0016

0.0021

0.0022

0.0021

0.0019

0.6311

0.7045

0.7028

0.9551

0.7554

1.4615

0.8879

0.8878

0.8731

0.0387

0.0272

0.0453

0.0432

0.0400

0.0714

0.0536

0.0423

0.0630

80.2934

57.2709

66.1862

56.3328

48.4414

130.2292

82.2046

101.4862

72.1103

38.5280

27.6290

31.8599

27.3468

23.4409

62.8005

39.6630

48.7888

34.8039

41.7654

29.6419

34.3263

28.9859

25.0005

67.4286

42.5416

52.6974

37.3064

23.6654

7.2615

6.2418

10.2150

9.1555

27.4469

13.1577

17.8501

14.0892

0.0464

0.0734

0.0799

0.0449

0.0500

0.0703

0.0111

0.0071

0.0156

3.2591

3.8788

2.2576

5.1557

3.9565

4.5583

4.6251

5.6095

4.2228

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.1823

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

8.1045

5.2557

6.2427

5.4557

4.8230

8.8276

5.5365

3.4975

3.7984

0.0648

0.0205

0.0188

0.0278

0.0245

0.0266

0.0167

0.0188

0.0194

6.6315

9.0565

5.8634

12.0346

9.6961

19.5833

10.0678

15.6229

13.0497

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0000

0.0130

0.0000

0.0000

0.0004

1.2727

1.1870

1.1458

0.9132

0.9463

0.4484

0.7726

0.5402

0.4990

0.0542

0.1524

0.0542

0.2101

0.1428

0.2083

0.1836

0.2548

0.1979

0.0740

0.0637

0.0553

0.0663

0.0544

0.0693

0.0682

0.0857

0.0783

0.0013

0.0006

0.0009

0.0007

0.0008

0.0005

0.0008

0.0008

0.0009

70.3642

49.8231

61.0063

63.9146

52.3844

42.6089

75.2598

78.1656

84.9818

0.0013

0.0032

0.0041

0.0019

0.0024

0.0052

0.0017

0.0018

0.0020

0.0901

0.0397

0.0396

0.0265

0.0275

0.0339

0.0194

0.0150

0.0138

0.0813

0.2287

0.0813

0.3152

0.2141

0.3125

0.2754

0.3822

0.2968

0.5821

0.7231

0.3974

0.8727

0.5666

0.9401

0.8155

0.9626

0.9968

  1. aLevels in bold represent highest exposed population subgroup