Evaluation of Indoor Air Contamination by Means of Reference and Guide Values: The German Approach

Heinzow, Birger; Sagunski, H.

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“…Table 1 Mercury indoor air guidelines, inhalation reference concentrations for chronic exposure (RfC), reference exposure limits (REL), and guidelines as defined by the German Federal Environment Agency, the US EPA, the Californian OEHHA, and the WHO [see also (Salthammer, 2011) World Health Organization (World Health Organization 2000, 2003. RW I: Concentration of a substance in indoor air for which, when considered individually, there is no evidence at present that even lifelong exposure is expected to have any adverse health impacts (Heinzow and Sagunski, 2009). RW II: Effect-related value based on current toxicological and epidemiological knowledge of a substanceÕs effect threshold, which takes uncertainty factors into account (Heinzow and Sagunski, 2009).…”

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“…RW I: Concentration of a substance in indoor air for which, when considered individually, there is no evidence at present that even lifelong exposure is expected to have any adverse health impacts (Heinzow and Sagunski, 2009). RW II: Effect-related value based on current toxicological and epidemiological knowledge of a substanceÕs effect threshold, which takes uncertainty factors into account (Heinzow and Sagunski, 2009).…”

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“… RW II: Effect‐related value based on current toxicological and epidemiological knowledge of a substance’s effect threshold, which takes uncertainty factors into account (Heinzow and Sagunski, 2009). …”

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“…Values exceeding this are, however, associated with exposure that is undesirable for health reasons. In special cases, certain properties of the substances are taken into account, for example, in the case of the low odor threshold of the aliphatic aldehydes with respect to RW I. RW II is an effect-related value based on current toxicological and epidemiological knowledge of a substance's effect threshold that takes uncertainty factors into account and which should not be exceeded [103].…”

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A Simple Tiered Methodology for the Determination of Ambient Air Quality Guidelines

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Within the scope of the renewal of industrial operating permits in Belgium, the Walloon Agency for Air and Climate needed air quality criteria for a wide range of toxics. Due to the plethora of different existing values for some compounds or the total lack for others, the development of a simple methodology was required to provide both quality and intervention criteria, corresponding respectively to a chemical concentration for which no adverse health effects are expected for a lifetime exposure, and the chemical concentration in air associated with a risk for human health deemed significant. The tiered methodology developed here allows the selection of air guidelines from available databases, and proposes, if needed, approaches based on wellproven procedures to derive air quality guidelines from occupational exposure limits, drinking water guidelines, tolerable daily intakes, or as a last resort acute lethal toxicity data if nothing else is available. If this method has been successfully applied to more than 550 compounds, all values produced should be validated according to the purpose of the guidelines, the technical feasibility of achieving the threshold produced, and the specificity of the environment conditions and the targeted population. Moreover, the criteria obtained from non-air-related data should be critically examined and handled with caution.

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Evaluation of Indoor Air Contamination by Means of Reference and Guide Values: The German Approach

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

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Estimating human indoor exposure to elemental mercury from broken compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs)

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A Simple Tiered Methodology for the Determination of Ambient Air Quality Guidelines

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