Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust

Elvira V Bräuner; Philipp Mayer; Lars Gunnarsen; Katrin Vorkamp; Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

doi:10.1039/c0em00750a

Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust

Elvira V Bräuner, Philipp Mayer, Lars Gunnarsen, Katrin Vorkamp, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

Department of Growth and Reproduction

Abstract

Organochlorine pesticides are present in the environment and suspected of causing serious health effects. Diet has been the main exposure source, but indoor source release is gaining focus. Within a monitoring study of polychlorinated biphenyls of Danish buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s, we coincidently determined extreme levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in two of ten random samples. This raises concern and further large scale investigations are warranted to confirm this.

Original language	English
Journal	Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
Volume	13
Issue number	3
Pages (from-to)	522-6
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1464-0325
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c0em00750a
Publication status	Published - Mar 2011

Keywords

Denmark
Dust/analysis
Housing
Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis
Pesticide Residues/analysis

Access to Document

10.1039/c0em00750a

Cite this

@article{975751422be449e7b44a0ed78198713c,

title = "Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust",

abstract = "Organochlorine pesticides are present in the environment and suspected of causing serious health effects. Diet has been the main exposure source, but indoor source release is gaining focus. Within a monitoring study of polychlorinated biphenyls of Danish buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s, we coincidently determined extreme levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in two of ten random samples. This raises concern and further large scale investigations are warranted to confirm this.",

keywords = "Denmark, Dust/analysis, Housing, Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis, Pesticide Residues/analysis",

author = "Br{\"a}uner, {Elvira V} and Philipp Mayer and Lars Gunnarsen and Katrin Vorkamp and Ole Raaschou-Nielsen",

year = "2011",

month = mar,

doi = "10.1039/c0em00750a",

language = "English",

volume = "13",

pages = "522--6",

journal = "Journal of Environmental Monitoring",

issn = "1464-0325",

publisher = "Royal Society of Chemistry",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust

AU - Bräuner, Elvira V

AU - Mayer, Philipp

AU - Gunnarsen, Lars

AU - Vorkamp, Katrin

AU - Raaschou-Nielsen, Ole

PY - 2011/3

Y1 - 2011/3

N2 - Organochlorine pesticides are present in the environment and suspected of causing serious health effects. Diet has been the main exposure source, but indoor source release is gaining focus. Within a monitoring study of polychlorinated biphenyls of Danish buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s, we coincidently determined extreme levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in two of ten random samples. This raises concern and further large scale investigations are warranted to confirm this.

AB - Organochlorine pesticides are present in the environment and suspected of causing serious health effects. Diet has been the main exposure source, but indoor source release is gaining focus. Within a monitoring study of polychlorinated biphenyls of Danish buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s, we coincidently determined extreme levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in two of ten random samples. This raises concern and further large scale investigations are warranted to confirm this.

KW - Denmark

KW - Dust/analysis

KW - Housing

KW - Hydrocarbons, Chlorinated/analysis

KW - Pesticide Residues/analysis

U2 - 10.1039/c0em00750a

DO - 10.1039/c0em00750a

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 21267478

VL - 13

SP - 522

EP - 526

JO - Journal of Environmental Monitoring

JF - Journal of Environmental Monitoring

SN - 1464-0325

IS - 3

ER -

Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this