Determination of hand soil loading, soil transfer, and particle size variations after hand-pressing and hand-mouthing activities

作者：Hsi Hsing Cheng; Hu Ching Yao; Tsou Ming Chien; Hu Han Jung; Ozkaynak Haluk; Bradham Karen; Hseu Zeng Yei; Dang Winston; Chien Ling Chu^*

来源：Science of the Total Environment, 2018, 627: 844-851.

DOI：10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.01.308

• Soil loading
• Mouthing activity
• Soil transfer
• Soil texture
• Exposure
• Health risk

Hand-pressing trials and hand-to-mouth soil transfer experiments were conducted to better understand soil loadings, soil transfer ratios for three mouthing activities, and variations in particle size distributions under various conditions. Results indicated that sand caused higher soil loadings on the hand than clay. When the moisture level of clay soil exceeded its liquid limit, soil loadings also increased. Greater pressing pressures also led to larger clay loadings. Clay with a moisture content close to its plastic limit caused the smallest soil loadings due to strong soil cohesion. Particle sizes of the transferred clay were larger than that of the original clay, indicating that hand-pressing and the pressure exerted may have enhanced clay particles of larger sizes adhering onto the hand. Nevertheless, the sizes of most particles that adhered to the hand were still smaller than 150 mu m. Higher pressing pressures and greater moisture contents resulted in larger soil loadings on the hand, and transfer ratios became smaller. Transfer ratios from palm-licking with clay particles were smaller than those from finger-mouthing, which may have been due to finer particles that more readily adhered to the skin of the palm and that were transferred from the hand to the mouth with greater difficulty.

• 出版日期2018-6-15