Estimation and Human Health Risk Assessment of Organochlorine Pesticides in Raw Milk Marketed in Zagazig City, Egypt

Table 2

Noncancer hazard ratio among Egyptian population due to ingestion of OCPs-contaminated milk from different animal species.

	RFD	Cow’s milk		Buffalo’s milk		Goat’s milk
		Adults	Children	Adults	Children	Adults	Children
pp-DDT	5.00E-04	0.04	0.15	0.09	0.37	0.15	0.59
pp-DDD	5.00E-04	0.03	0.1	0.04	0.14	0.09	0.37
pp-DDE	5.00E-04	0.03	0.11	0.06	0.24	0.07	0.29
Heptachlor	5.00E-04	0.02	0.08	0.03	0.1	0.02	0.09
Heptachlor-epoxide	5.00E-04	0.03	0.13	0.04	0.16	0.03	0.1
-HCH	3.00E-04	0.02	0.06	0.02	0.07	0.09	0.37
-HCH	3.00E-04	0.03	0.13	0.09	0.38	0.22	0.88
Aldrin	3.00E-04	0.01	0.05	0.02	0.07	0.04	0.18
Endrin	3.00E-04	0.002	0.01	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.06
Chlordane	5.00E-04	0.02	0.09	0.02	0.08	0.02	0.08
HCB	8.00E-04	0.01	0.04	0.02	0.08	0.03	0.12
Methoxychlor	0.05	0.26	1.03	0.75	3	1.48	5.92

RFD: oral reference doses.
Values in bold represent higher hazard ratio (>1.0).