Chemical emissions from residential dryer vents during use of fragranced laundry products

Steinemann, Anne; Gallagher, Lisa G.; Davis, Amy L.; MacGregor, Ian C.

doi:10.1007/s11869-011-0156-1

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“…Terpenes characteristic of fragranced consumer products are among the most abundant pollutant indoors and they contribute to pollutants outdoors (Steinemann et al 2013;Steinemann 2015). In addition to being primary emissions, terpenes react with other chemicals to generate a range of secondary and potentially hazardous pollutants.…”

Section: Terpenes and Reaction Productsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The fragranced products phenomenon: air quality and health, science and policy

Steinemann

2020

Air Qual Atmos Health

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Fragrance is used in consumer products around the world. However, fragrance has been associated with adverse effects on indoor and outdoor air quality and human health. Questions arise, such as the following: Why does fragrance in products pose problems? What are sources of emissions and exposures? What are health and societal effects? What are possible solutions? This paper examines the issue of fragranced consumer products and its science and policy dimensions, with a focus on the implications for air quality and human health. Results include new findings and new questions for future research directions.

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Section: Terpenes and Reaction Productsmentioning

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The fragranced products phenomenon: air quality and health, science and policy

Steinemann

2020

Air Qual Atmos Health

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“…Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are a category of air pollutants that typically occur at much higher concentrations indoors (Bari et al 2015;Cheng et al 2016;Goodman et al 2017). Primary sources of indoor VOCs are fragranced consumer products such as air fresheners, cleaning products, and laundry supplies (Steinemann et al 2013;Steinemann 2015). Volatile chemical emissions from products used indoors can also migrate outdoors and affect outdoor air quality (Steinemann et al 2013;McDonald et al 2018;Lewis 2018).…”

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“…Primary sources of indoor VOCs are fragranced consumer products such as air fresheners, cleaning products, and laundry supplies (Steinemann et al 2013;Steinemann 2015). Volatile chemical emissions from products used indoors can also migrate outdoors and affect outdoor air quality (Steinemann et al 2013;McDonald et al 2018;Lewis 2018).…”

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“…Fragranced laundry products emit a range of VOCs such as acetaldehyde, acetone, ethanol, α-pinene, linalool, and D-limonene (Steinemann et al 2013). Some of these VOCs are classified as potentially hazardous and can have adverse effects on human health and the environment (Mendell 2007;Rumchev et al 2004;Spengler et al 2000).…”

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“…Prior work (Steinemann et al 2013) analysed VOC emissions from residential dryer vents during the use of fragranced laundry products such as detergents and dryer sheets. The study found more than 25 VOCs emitted from the dryer vents, including nine compounds classified as toxic or hazardous, with highest concentrations of acetaldehyde, acetone, methanol, ethanol, and limonene.…”

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Emissions from dryer vents during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products

Goodman

Wheeler

Paevere

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Air Qual Atmos Health

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Fragranced laundry products emit a range of volatile organic compounds, including hazardous air pollutants. Exposure to fragranced emissions from laundry products has been associated with adverse health effects such as asthma attacks and migraine headaches. Little is known about volatile emissions from clothes dryer vents and the effectiveness of strategies to reduce concentrations and risks. This study investigates volatile emissions from six residential dryer vents, with a focus on D-limonene. It analyses and compares concentrations of D-limonene during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products, as well as changes in switching from fragranced to fragrance-free products. In households using fragranced laundry detergent, the highest concentration of D-limonene from a dryer vent was 118 μg/m 3 (mean 33.34 μg/m 3). By contrast, in households using only fragrance-free detergent, the highest concentration of D-limonene from a dryer vent was 0.26 μg/m 3 (mean 0.25 μg/m 3). After households using fragranced detergent switched to using fragrance-free detergent, the concentrations of D-limonene in dryer vent emissions were reduced by up to 99.7% (mean 79.1%). This simple strategy of switching to fragrance-free products significantly and almost completely eliminated D-limonene emissions. Results from this study demonstrate that changing from fragranced to fragrance-free products can be a straightforward and effective approach to reduce ambient air pollution and potential health risks.

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Children's Housing and Physical Environments

Bradley

2015

Handbook of Child Psychology and Developmental Science

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Children live in a world dense with actions, objects, people, and events. Through time these phenomena provide the structure for development and the ingredients that help determine its course. In this chapter attention will be given to various aspects of the houses children live in and the natural and built environments surrounding them, with a view to explicating how each is implicated in children's behavior and development. The chapter begins with a consideration of several conceptual frameworks that bear upon how children might experience the structures, objects, and sensory stimuli in places where they spend time and what those experiences might mean for their health, competence, and adaptive functioning. Thereafter is a review of what is known about various aspects of housing conditions, the materials and facilities within the house, and the nearby physical environment, with attention to how each may affect children's behavior and well‐being. The third section moves beyond a consideration of particular aspects of the environment to a consideration of overall environmental chaos (i.e., how the structure of events and conditions in space and time affect health and behavioral tendencies). The chapter concludes with an effort to put issues pertaining to the physical environment in historic context, with a view to the future.

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Chemical emissions from residential dryer vents during use of fragranced laundry products

Cited by 23 publications

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The fragranced products phenomenon: air quality and health, science and policy

The fragranced products phenomenon: air quality and health, science and policy

Emissions from dryer vents during use of fragranced and fragrance-free laundry products

Children's Housing and Physical Environments

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