Identification of Selected Hormonally Active Agents and Animal Mammary Carcinogens in Commercial and Residential Air and Dust Samples

Rudel, Ruthann A.; Brody, Julia Green; Spengler, John D.; Vallarino, Jose; Geno, Paul W.; Sun, Gang; Yau, Alice

doi:10.1080/10473289.2001.10464292

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“…Phthalates and BPA are detectable in aquatic environments, in dust and, because of their volatility, in air (Rudel et al 2001(Rudel et al , 2003. There is considerable concern about the adverse effects of these chemicals on wildlife and humans (Meeker et al 2009;Oehlmann et al 2009).…”

Section: Plastics As Materials: An Overviewmentioning

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Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends

Thompson

Moore²,

Saal

et al. 2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Plastics have transformed everyday life; usage is increasing and annual production is likely to exceed 300 million tonnes by 2010. In this concluding paper to the Theme Issue on Plastics, the Environment and Human Health, we synthesize current understanding of the benefits and concerns surrounding the use of plastics and look to future priorities, challenges and opportunities. It is evident that plastics bring many societal benefits and offer future technological and medical advances. However, concerns about usage and disposal are diverse and include accumulation of waste in landfills and in natural habitats, physical problems for wildlife resulting from ingestion or entanglement in plastic, the leaching of chemicals from plastic products and the potential for plastics to transfer chemicals to wildlife and humans. However, perhaps the most important overriding concern, which is implicit throughout this volume, is that our current usage is not sustainable. Around 4 per cent of world oil production is used as a feedstock to make plastics and a similar amount is used as energy in the process. Yet over a third of current production is used to make items of packaging, which are then rapidly discarded. Given our declining reserves of fossil fuels, and finite capacity for disposal of waste to landfill, this linear use of hydrocarbons, via packaging and other short-lived applications of plastic, is simply not sustainable. There are solutions, including material reduction, design for end-of-life recyclability, increased recycling capacity, development of bio-based feedstocks, strategies to reduce littering, the application of green chemistry life-cycle analyses and revised risk assessment approaches. Such measures will be most effective through the combined actions of the public, industry, scientists and policymakers. There is some urgency, as the quantity of plastics produced in the first 10 years of the current century is likely to approach the quantity produced in the entire century that preceded.

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Section: Plastics As Materials: An Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plastics, the environment and human health: current consensus and future trends

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Moore²,

Saal

et al. 2009

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…Living room samples were collected from all accessible surfaces including sofas and carpets since these fabric surfaces are primary reservoirs for dust borne pesticides and can serve as a source of continued exposure to occupants (Fenske et al, 1991;Simcox et al, 1995;Gurunathan et al, 1998;Landrigan et al, 1999). Vacuum dust was obtained using a sampling protocol that was adapted from the epidemiologic study conducted in Cape Cod, Massachusetts that looked at the associations between environmental exposures and breast cancer (Rudel et al, 2001). The sampling apparatus consisted of a 9 A Eureka Mighty-mitet vacuum cleaner, adjusted to collect dust in a 19 Â 90 mm cellulose extraction thimble which was placed into an extended arm.…”

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Pesticide loadings of select organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticides in urban public housing

Julien

Adamkiewicz

Levy

et al. 2007

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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We investigated the magnitude and distribution of pyrethroid and organophosphate pesticide loadings within public housing dwellings in Boston, Massachusetts and compared the results using various sampling methods. We collected dust matrices from living room and kitchen in 42 apartments and analyzed for eleven pyrethoids (e.g., permethrin and cyfluthrin) and two organophosphates (chlorpyrifos and diazinon) in house dust using GC/MS. Agreement between sampling methods were evaluated using Spearman correlations and Kappa statistics. Permethrin and chlorpyrifos were detected in kitchen floor wipes in all homes, followed in frequency of detects by diazinon (98%), cypermethrin (90%) and cyfluthrin (71%). At least six pesticides were detected in kitchen floor wipes in the majority of the homes (range 3-8). Positive and statistically significant correlations among dust matrices were observed between kitchen floor wipes and living room vacuum dust, including for diazinon (r ¼ 0.62) and cyfluthrin (r ¼ 0.69). Detection of several pesticides including banned or restricted use products in some public housing units, underscore the need for alternative pest management strategies that embrace the safe and judicious use of pest control products.

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“…Of particular concern is the use of BPA in food and beverage plastic storage and heating containers and to line metal cans. In addition, potential environmental sources of BPA contamination are due to use in dental fillings and sealants [12], losses at the production site [13], leaching from landfill [14,15], and presence in indoors air [16].…”

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confidence: 99%