Correction to: Age-related changes to environmental exposure: variation in the frequency that young children place hands and objects in their mouths

Correction to: Official journal of the International Society of Exposure Science https://doi.org/10.1038/s41370-019-0115-8

In the original version of this article, location-independent hand-mouthing frequencies, object-mouthing frequencies, and frequencies of hand contact with soil were incorrectly reported. Mobility was also incorrectly stated as not associated with location-independent object-mouthing. (The location-specific frequencies reported in the original article were correct.) We have accordingly corrected the manuscript text, Table 2, Figures 1, 3, and 4, and the supplemental information in the pdf and html versions of the article.

Table 2 Prevalence and frequency of observed soil (top) and feces (bottom) ingestion during observations of young children

Fig. 1

Frequency of hand-to-mouth contacts not related to eating, hand-to-mouth contacts related to eating, all hand-to-mouth contacts, and object-to-mouth contacts among young children in rural Bangladesh

Fig. 3

Percentage of hand-to-mouth contacts that occurred during eating or involved other individuals and the percentage of object-to-mouth contacts that involved utensils among young children in rural Bangladesh. The dark middle lines denote the median, the edges of the boxes mark the 75th and 25th percentile, and the whiskers extend to values ± 1.5 times the interquartile range

Fig. 4

Frequency of touching water, foods, soil, and objects among young children in rural Bangladesh