I am working on risk assessment of heavy metals and the results are such that Estimated Daily Intake (EDI) is many folds greater than respective reference dose (RfD), but the THQ is less than 1.
My second query is that when THQ is less than 1, why does that metal (Ni) show target carcinogenic risk (TR) in the 10^-2?
Is it the acceptable case or I did I do a wrong calculation?