An indoor chemical cocktail

The chemistry that determines human exposure to indoor pollutants is incompletely understood In the past 50 years, many of the contaminants and chemical transformations that occur in outdoor waters, soils, and air have been elucidated. However, the chemistry of the indoor environment in which we liv...

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Published in:Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2018-02, Vol.359 (6376), p.632-633
Main Authors: Gligorovski, Sasho, Abbatt, Jonathan P D
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Air Pollutants - chemistry
Air pollution
Air Pollution, Indoor
Airborne particulates
Chemical pollution
Contaminants
Environmental assessment
Health
Health risk assessment
Health risks
Humans
Indoor air quality
Indoor environments
Particulate matter
Pollutants
Pollution
Risk analysis
Risk factors
Smoking
Soil contamination
Solid fuels
Tobacco
Tobacco smoking
Transformations
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Summary:The chemistry that determines human exposure to indoor pollutants is incompletely understood In the past 50 years, many of the contaminants and chemical transformations that occur in outdoor waters, soils, and air have been elucidated. However, the chemistry of the indoor environment in which we live most of the time—up to 90% in some societies—is not nearly as well studied. Recent work has highlighted the wealth of chemical transformations that occur indoors. This chemistry is associated with 3 of the top 10 risk factors for negative health outcomes globally: household air pollution from solid fuels, tobacco smoking, and ambient particulate matter pollution ( 1 ). Assessments of human exposure to indoor pollutants must take these reactive processes into consideration.
ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.aar6837