Indoor air

Seasonal and diurnal air pollution from residential cooking and space heating in the Eastern Tibetan Plateau, Carter, E., S. Archer-Nicholls, K. Ni, A. M. Lai, H. Niu, M. H. Secrest, S. M. Sauer, J. J. Schauer, M. Ezzati, C. Wiedinmyer, X. Yang, and J. Baumgartner

Environ. Sci. Technol., 2016, 50 (15), pp 8353–8361, Publication Date (Web): June 28, 2016.

One of the major factors affecting indoor air quality that we highlight in Chapter 7 are the activities that take place within the building. This paper looks at residential combustion of solid fuel as a major source of air pollution providing a case study and a detailed examination of such an example.

Chlorinated paraffins in indoor air and dust: Concentrations, congener patterns, and human exposure, Fridén, U.E., M.S. McLachlan and U. Berger, Environment International 37 (2011) 1169-1174 (Published by  Elsevier, July 2011).

Chlorinated paraffins are commodity chemicals utilized in a large number of commercial applications - for example as flame retardants and as plasticizers in PVC, rubber, paints, coatings and sealants. As such, persons living in urban settings are exposed to these compounds through inhalation of volatile compounds and also through ingestion of dust. This paper examines the concentrations and nature of exposure to this relatively underinvestigated class of compounds by persons living in apartments in Sweden. It provides another example of typical human exposure to chemicals that are ubiquitous in many 21st century settings.