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Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter (arstechnica.com)

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[–] mipadaitu 1 points 1 day ago

The EPA's safe level is 7,000 ng—per kilogram of body weight—per day, and the authors used 60 kg as the adult weight (about 132 pounds) for their estimate. So, the safe EPA limit would be 7,000 multiplied by 60, yielding 420,000 ng per day. That's 12 times more than the estimated exposure of 34,700 ng per day.

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