Estimation of body burden of dioxin-like compounds in Japan

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to estimate the body burden of Dioxin-like compounds for average Japanese during these decades. To achieve this purpose, we first estimate the daily intake of adults and body burden of newborn babies from available data and substitute them into a body burden model to finally estimate the body burden. As a result, it was illustrated that Japanese who were born in the early 1970s might have accumulated about three times larger body burden of Dioxin-like compounds than that is of based upon the current TDI in Japan.