Thank you for your proposal. For this part, we have added to the methods section, and followed as: “The Hazard Quotients (HQ) is the ratio of daily intake dose of pollutants to reference dose, which is used to characterize the levels of human exposure to non-carcinogenic contaminants through a single pathway which represents the level of non‒carcinogenic risk”.
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