Discussion on the technical note entitled, "public health risk assessment following exposure to PAH-contaminated soils - specific considerations for bioaccessibility and other exposure parameters"

Abhrajyoti Tarafdar; Alok Sinha

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.231

Discussion on the technical note entitled, "public health risk assessment following exposure to PAH-contaminated soils - specific considerations for bioaccessibility and other exposure parameters"

Sci Total Environ. 2019 Mar 15:656:1448-1451. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.231. Epub 2018 Dec 15.

Authors

Abhrajyoti Tarafdar¹, Alok Sinha²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University, Republic of Korea; Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India.
² Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, India. Electronic address: aloksinha11@yahoo.com.

PMID: 30580782
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.231

Abstract

This is a discussion on the technical note entitled, "Public Health Risk Assessment following Exposure to PAH-contaminated Soils - Specific Considerations for Bioaccessibility and Other Exposure Parameters". Presence of some serious issues in the technical note on understanding the scopes and concepts of the original research article have been highlighted. The prevailing unclear definition of bioaccessibility and bioavailability in the scientific community may have been caused the misunderstanding of the scope of our original study. On an effort to clear this idea we feel privileged to write this discussion.

Keywords: Bioaccessibility; Bioavailability; Human health risk assessment.