Sentence examples for intake of soil from inspiring English sources
The code can handle exposure pathways that include: external exposure from finite or infinite atmospheric plumes; inhalation; external exposure from contaminated soil, sediments, and water; external exposure from special geometries; and internal exposures from consumption of terrestrial foods, aquatic foods, drinking water, animal products, and inadvertent intake of soil.
The slots were cut liberally vertical to allow percolation of water, but the cuts were small enough to exclude significant intake of soil.
Human exposure to these compounds via ingestion of food, in addition to oral and dermal intake of dust and soil have been reported in the literature (Roosens et al. 2010).
When he investigated the outbreak, he found it derived from the combination of low protein intake, poor soil conditions, and a lack of sufficient water resources for the thorough processing of bitter cassava roots that, due to hunger, people were consuming as their only source of food -- without proper treatment, the bitter cassava becomes laced with naturally occurring cyanide.
Similar levels of soil ingestion were reported for pregnant Kenyan women, with a median daily intake of 41.5 g from soil sample [ 26].
For instance, modest consumption of 50.0 grams of soil taken from an arsenic contaminated area per day is equivalent to intake of 0.370 mg of arsenic [ 1].
Our analysis also included estimates of iAs intake from soil, as well as total iAs intake.
Direct contamination of livestock through intake of contaminated plants and soils appears to be less frequent.
Dispersion of soil slows down the intake of water to the root zone following rainfall or irrigation.
Human health is directly affected through intake of crops grown in polluted soils.
These findings are reasonably consistent with U.S. EPA (2003a) estimates of the relationship between tissue levels and TCDD intake from soil, which predict that a soil concentration of 13 ppt (the 95th percentile of the house perimeter 0 1 in. soil samples) would contribute 0.14 ppt to serum TCDD.
