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Significance of the Dermal Route of Exposure to Risk Assessment

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  • David R. Mattie
  • John H. Grabau
  • James N. McDougal

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The skin is a route of exposure that needs to be considered when conducting a risk assessment. It is necessary to identify the potential for dermal penetration by a chemical as well as to determine the overall importance of the dermal route of exposure as compared with inhalation or oral routes of exposure. The physical state of the chemical, vapor or liquid, the concentration, neat or dilute, and the vehicle, lipid or aqueous, is also important. Dermal risk is related to the product of the amounts of penetration and toxicity. Toxicity involves local effects on the skin itself and the potential for systemic effects. Dermal penetration is described in large part by the permeability constant. When permeability constants are not known, partition coefficients can be used to estimate a chemical's potential to permeate the skin. With these concepts in mind, a tiered approach is proposed for dermal risk assessment. A key first step is the determination of a skin‐to‐air or skin‐to‐medium partition coefficient to estimate a potential for dermal absorption. Building a physiologically‐based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model is another step in the tiered approach and is useful prior to classical in vivo toxicity tests. A PBPK model can be used to determine a permeability constant for a chemical as well as to show the distribution of the chemical systemically. A detailed understanding of species differences in the structure and function of the skin and how they relate to differences in penetration rates is necessary in order to extrapolate animal data from PBPK models to the human. A study is in progress to examine anatomical differences for four species.

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  • David R. Mattie & John H. Grabau & James N. McDougal, 1994. "Significance of the Dermal Route of Exposure to Risk Assessment," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 14(3), pages 277-284, June.
  • Handle: RePEc:wly:riskan:v:14:y:1994:i:3:p:277-284
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00242.x
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