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

Table 3

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

	CSF	Cow milk		Buffalo milk		Goat milk
		Adults	Children	Adults	Children	Adults	Children
pp-DDT	0.34	0.22	0.88	0.54	2.17	0.86	3.46
pp-DDD	0.24	0.21	0.85	0.29	1.17	0.77	3.07
pp-DDE	0.34	0.17	0.68	0.36	1.42	0.43	1.73
Heptachlor	4.5	0.01	0.04	0.01	0.05	0.01	0.05
Heptachlor-epoxide	4.5	0.01	0.06	0.02	0.07	0.01	0.05
-HCH	1.1	0.05	0.18	0.06	0.22	0.28	1.12
-HCH	1.1	0.1	0.41	0.29	1.15	0.67	2.68
Aldrin	17	0.002	0.009	0.004	0.015	0.01	0.03
Endrin	17	0.0004	0.002	0.001	0.006	0.003	0.01
Chlordane	0.35	0.14	0.54	0.115	0.46	0.12	0.47
HCB	1.6	0.01	0.03	0.02	0.06	0.02	0.09
Methoxychlor	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA

CSF: cancer slope factor.
NA: not available as there is no CSF value for methoxychlor.
Values in bold represent higher hazard ratio (>1.0).