“…Human skin is, however, not always easily available and a number of studies have used alternative animal skins. In studies where PAH dermal bioavailability, with and without soil have been studied (Wester et al,, 1990;Moody et al, 1995;Roy et al,, 1998b;Roy and Singh, 2001;Moody et al, 2007;Moody et al, 2009;Moody et al, 2011), pig (Jacques et al, 2010), rat (Yang et al, 1989;Moody et al, 1995;Roy et al, 1998a) and guinea pig skin (Moody et al, 1995) have been used.…”