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Human Elimination of Organochlorine Pesticides: Blood, Urine, and Sweat Study

Table 4

(a) Distribution of parent compounds in serum (SE), sweat (SW), and urine (U) (µg/kg). (b) Distribution of parent compounds in serum (SE), sweat (SW), and urine (U) (µg/kg). (c) Distribution of parent compounds in serum (SE), sweat (SW), and urine (U) (µg/kg).

(a)


	SE Aldrin	SW Aldrin	U Aldrin	SE DDT	SW DDT	U DDT	SE Endosulfan I	SW Endosulfan I	U Endosulfan I

	2	5	2	2	14	3	1	1	13
Mean	—	0.15	—	—	0.49	—	—	—	0.14
Median	—	0.14	—	—	0.42	—	—	—	0.14
Std. Dev.	—	0.028	—	—	0.23	—	—	—	0.018
Range	0.17–0.66	0.10–0.17	0.10–0.15	0.22–0.23	0.27–1.1	0.19–0.39	0.11	0.12	0.12–0.18

represents the number of participants with a detectable amount of the OCP from the 20 total participants examined.
For matrices having fewer than 5 individuals with detectable OCP levels, the mean, median, and standard deviation measurements were not provided.

(b)


	SE Endrin	SW Endrin	U Endrin	SE Heptachlor	SW Heptachlor	U Heptachlor	SE Mirex	SW Mirex	U Mirex

	0	13	1	8	1	0	2	3	2
Mean	—	0.18	—	0.37	—	—	—	—	—
Median	—	0.15	—	0.33	—	—	—	—	—
Std. Dev.	—	0.083	—	0.17	—	—	—	—	—
Range	—	0.11–0.18	0.12	0.15–0.67	0.11	—	0.12–0.18	0.10–0.17	0.11–0.16

(c)


	SE Methoxychlor	SW Methoxychlor	U Methoxychlor	SE Hexachlorobenzene	SW Hexachlorobenzene	U Hexachlorobenzene

	0	16	3	6	1	0
Mean	—	0.26	—	0.29	—	—
Median	—	0.22	—	0.30	—	—
Std. Dev.	—	0.13	—	0.11	—	—
Range	—	0.13–0.70	0.14–0.19	0.18–0.49	0.11	—