General model for quantifying contamination of humans from exposure to polluted soils

The goal was to construct a general model for assessing risk by contaminated soil and to apply this as an example to the substances benzo(a)pyrene and cadmium. To do this useful approaches from the current literature were selected. The algorithms - after major differentiation and modification - were combined to a comprehensive model. The model system described here is capable of learning and transparent. So it provides the advantage of being able to take a more advanced basis of knowledge into account. This may be simply achieved by variation of some parts of the model or by adjusting some parameters. (orig./MG)