Erratum: Contribution of locally grown foods in cumulative exposure assessments

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology (2004) 14, 60–73. doi:10.1038/sj.jea.7500306

Since the publication of the above paper, the authors have identified errors in Table 2a and Table A1. Specifically, the coefficient of variation (CV) of 39.4 for the intake rate (IR_j), (kg j/kg-BW/day) of protected vegetables should be 3.94. Additionally, the intake rate (IR_j) of beets in Table A1, should be 2.2 E-02 (g/kg-BW/d), not 2.2 E-01 (g/kg-BW/d). Revisions of the tables are given below. The corrected values in the Tables do not change our results and conclusions.

Table 1 Summary of mean (CV) for ingestion-related parameters used in the (a) numerator and inhalation parameters in the (b) denominator of the empirical θ_ing/inh(fvg) (see Eq. (2) for definitions)

Table a1 Information used to calculate the intake weighted concentration, $\overline{Cj,w}$ of benzo(a)pyrene in fruit, vegetable and grains (fvgs)