Asthma and Cleaning: What’s New?

Cleaning product emissions and indoor built environments: Exposure and health risk assessments from experiments under realistic indoor conditions

“…This difference from the conclusions of this HRA can be explained by differences in the selected toxicity values and the higher maximum exposures extrapolated from direct emission measurements (e.g., in the literature, no formaldehyde acute exposure exceeds 100 µg/m 3 (max: 82 µg/m 3 for a floor cleaner)). However, several reviews of the scientific literature, based on epidemiological studies mainly addressing professional uses, have shown an association between the use of cleaning products and various respiratory disorders, including an increased risk of asthma and of the intensity of associated symptoms [16,17,20,21,[58][59][60]. The strongest level of evidence relates to professional uses, but multiple studies have indicated situations of concern for household use [14,16,58,61].…”