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The current chapter discusses soil and dust ingestion, a potentially important pathway for non-dietary oral exposure, especially for children. Starting from clear definitions on what is meant by soil and dust and how they interrelate, it explores the several approaches that have been used to derive estimates of soil and dust ingestion rates. It concludes that tracer methodology studies, with all their...