Research Article

Human Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in Groundwater in the Luan River Catchment within the North China Plain

Table 3

The cancer slope factor (SFo) and reference dose (RfDo) of heavy metals via drinking water from the study area (/ indicates that no relevant data has been found).

Heavy metalsSFo (kg·d·mg-1)RfDo (mg·kg-1·d-1)

Cd/0.001
Cr0.50.003
Ni/0.020