# Assessment of Pesticide Contamination of Groundwater from Titu-Sarata Plain, Romania
## 3 Results
### Human Health Risk Assessment
#### 3.3.2 Carcinogenic Risk Assessment  
Using the CSF values presented in Table 4, the ILCR values for aldrin and pp'DDE were determined and are presented in Supplementary Data (Table S7). In the case of dieldrin, the ILCR values are as follows: 6.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) for infants; 2.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) for children; and 1.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) for adults. Also, the obtained ILCR values for atrazine and simazine are of the order of 10\({}^{-10}\)-10\({}^{-13}\).  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline
**Location** & **HI Infants** & **HI Children** & **HI Adults** \\ \hline Baba Ana & 1.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 8.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 4.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Brezoaia & 2.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 1.2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 7.4 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Baraitaru & 2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 9.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.4 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Ciocanesti & 1.2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 3.3 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Cosereni & 9.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 4.4 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 2.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) \\ Fanari & 1.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Jilavele & 7.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Lunguletu & 8.2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Niculesti & 8.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Odaia Turculiu & 1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Olarii Vechi & 1.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.4 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Predesti & 1.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Palanca & 6.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 1.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Romanesti & 5.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 1.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Suseni Biliciuresti & 1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 4.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Salcuta & 9.6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 4.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 6: The \(HI\) values obtained and used to estimate non-carcinogenic risk in locations where OCPs are present.  
\begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c} \hline
**Location** & **HI Infants** & **HI Children** & **HI Adults** \\ \hline Brezoaia & 1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 2.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Crovu & 2.3 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Gageni & 2.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 10 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Niculesti & 3.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 1.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 10 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ Palanca & 2.3 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 6 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Romanesti & 7.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 3.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 2 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Spataru & 1.8 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 8.5 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) & 4.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Suseni Biliciuresti & 3.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 1.7 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 9.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-6}\) \\ Sicrita & 1.9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-4}\) & 9 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) & 5.1 \(\times\) 10\({}^{-5}\) \\ \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 5: The \(HI\) values obtained and used to estimate non-carcinogenic risk in locations where OPs are present.  
The total ILCR values for each location where OCPs were present detected in the groundwater are shown in Table 7.