Data underlying the publication: Human health risk assessment framework for new water resource recovery-based bio-composite materials.

A new type of bio-composite material is being produced from water-recovered resources such as cellulose fibres from wastewater, calcite from the drinking water softening process, and grass and reed from waterboard sites. These raw materials may be contaminated with pathogens and chemicals such as Escherichia coli, heavy metals, and resin compounds. A novel risk assessment framework was developed, addressing human health risks during the production of new bio-composite materials. The developed framework consists of a combination of existing risk assessment methods and is based on three main steps: hazard identification, qualitative risk mapping, and quantitative risk assessment. The Hazard & Operability (HAZOP) and Event Tree Analysis (ETA) methodologies were used for hazard identification and risk mapping stages. Then, human health risks were quantitatively assessed using quantitative chemical risk assessment (QCRA), evaluating cancer and non-cancer risk, and quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA). The deterministic and the stochastic approaches were performed for this purpose.