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How Hazardous Materials <br /> Enter Your Body (.ont.) <br /> • Ingestion (eating <br /> contaminated food) <br /> • Penetration through • <br /> a cut, puncture, or ' <br /> injection <br /> r <br /> s <br /> O BLIM�ufneud lepH Ftsourcee 15t' <br /> Other ways materials can enter your body include: <br /> • Swallowing, or ingestion. Even though you may not intentionally <br /> swallow hazardous materials, materials can be transferred onto food if <br /> your hands are contaminated; and <br /> • Direct penetration, such as when a material enters the body through an <br /> open cut or skin puncture. <br /> You work with materials—can you think of ways that materials might <br /> enter your body through skin contact, inhalation, ingestion, or penetration? <br /> 12 <br />