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The Exposure Status of Environmental Chemicals in South Korea: The Korean National Environmental Health Survey 2018-2020.
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Abstract
In South Korea, a Human Biomonitoring (HBM) program, known as the Korean National Environmental Health Survey (KoNEHS), was launched in 2009. This study aims to provide an overview of environmental chemical exposures in South Korea based on data from the KoNEHS cycle 4 (2018-2020). To ensure population representativeness, Koreans aged 3 years and older were recruited from 426 sites across the country. A total of 6381 participants joined in the collection of biospecimens, which were subsequently analyzed for 33 environmental chemicals or their metabolites, including nine that were not included in the previous cycle. The five most common PFASs were detected in more than 99.7% of the participants. The GM of serum PFOS was the highest in adults at 15.1 µg/L (13.9, 16.4) and in adolescents at 7.97 µg/L (7.42, 8.56). In adults, there was a gradual decrease in the detection rate and concentration of some heavy metals and phthalate metabolites. In children and adolescents, the detection rate of BPA in urine decreased, while the rate of its substitutes BPF and BPS increased, and the rate of propyl paraben in urine decreased significantly. The results of the KoNEHS cycle 4 indicate that exposure levels to certain environmental chemicals are still high, highlighting further monitoring and on-going surveys to determine their trends, especially for newly investigated substances, such as PFASs.
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