Carcinogenic and mutagenic risk assessments
15 (link),60 (link)–63 (link),67 (link)–69 (link) induced by inhalation of PM2.5-bound enriched with selected nitro-PAHs (1-NPYR, 2-NPYR, 2-NFLT, 3-NFLT, 2-NBA, and 3-NBA) and PAHs (PYR, FLT, BaP, and BaA) were estimated in the bus station and coastal site samples according to calculations done by
Wang et al.
60 (link),
Nascimento et al.
61 (link),
and Schneider et al.
67 (link) PAH and PAH derivatives risk assessment is done in terms of BaP toxicity, which is well established
67 (link)–73 (link). The daily inhalation levels (E
I) were calculated as:
where
EI (ng person
−1 day
−1) is the daily inhalation exposure,
IR (m³ d
−1) is the inhalation rate (m³ d
−1),
BaPeq is the equivalent of benzo[a]pyrene
(BaPeq =
Σ Ci ×
TEFi) (in ng m
−3),
Ci is the PM2.5 concentration level for a target compound
i, and
TEFi is the toxic equivalent factor of the compound
i. TEF values were considered those from
Tomaz et al.
15 (link),
Nisbet and LaGoy69 (link),
OEHHA72 ,
Durant et al.
73 (link), and references therein. E
I in terms of mutagenicity was calculated using equation (
1), just replacing the TEF data by the mutagenic potency factors (MEFs) data, published by
Durant et al.
73 (link). Individual TEFs and MEFs values and other data used in this study are described in SI, Table
S4.
The incremental lifetime cancer risk (ILCR) was used to assess the inhalation risk for the population in the Greater Salvador, where the bus station and the coastal site are located. ILCR is calculated as:
where
SF is the cancer slope factor of BaP, which was 3.14 (mg kg
−1 d
−1)
−1 for inhalation exposure
60 (link),
EF (day year
−1) represents the exposure frequency (365 days year
−1),
ED (year) represents exposure duration to air particles (year),
cf is a conversion factor (1 × 10
−6),
AT (days) means the lifespan of carcinogens in 70 years (70 × 365 = 25,550 days)
70 ,72 , and
BW (kg) is the body weight of a subject in a target population
71 .
The risk assessment was performed considering four different target groups in the population: adults (>21 years), adolescents (11–16 years), children (1–11 years), and infants (<1 year). The IR for adults, adolescents, children, and infants were 16.4, 21.9, 13.3, 6.8 m
3 day
−1, respectively. The BW was considered 80 kg for adults, 56.8 kg for adolescents, 26.5 kg for children and 6.8 kg for infants
70 .
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