PMID- 17554420
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20070817
LR  - 20070607
IS  - 1464-0325 (Print)
IS  - 1464-0325 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 6
DP  - 2007 Jun
TI  - Occupational and indoor air exposure to persistent organic pollutants: a review 
      of passive sampling techniques and needs.
PG  - 501-9
AB  - Exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and related compounds such as 
      PCBs, brominated flame retardants, organochlorine pesticides and PAHs is regarded 
      as an important environmental risk factor for humans. Recently concerns about 
      POPs resulted in the international protocol called the Stockholm Convention on 
      POPs. Air quality standards (indoor, outdoor and occupational) for PAHs and other 
      POPs will also be applied in the EU in the future. This will bring requirements 
      for monitoring, to check for compliance and to reduce human exposures to POPs. 
      This can occur from point sources and in various microenvironments, indoors, 
      outdoors and in workplaces. Monitoring can be undertaken either by an active 
      (pumped) method or using a passive (diffusive) air sampling (PAS) device. To 
      date, PAS for POPs have mainly been used as integrating (long-term) samplers for 
      ambient (outdoor) air. However, there are several reasons to develop PAS for 
      monitoring of POPs in occupational and indoor environments. We discuss the 
      potential advantages, limitations and developments needed, so that PAS can be 
      used reliably and routinely indoors and in occupational settings for POPs.
FAU - Bohlin, Pernilla
AU  - Bohlin P
AD  - Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at 
      Goteborg University, SE-405 30, Goteborg, Sweden. pernilla.bohlin@amm.gu.se
FAU - Jones, Kevin C
AU  - Jones KC
FAU - Strandberg, Bo
AU  - Strandberg B
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20070403
PL  - England
TA  - J Environ Monit
JT  - Journal of environmental monitoring : JEM
JID - 100968688
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants, Occupational)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants, Occupational/*analysis
MH  - Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*instrumentation/*methods
MH  - Humans
RF  - 101
EDAT- 2007/06/08 09:00
MHDA- 2007/08/19 09:00
CRDT- 2007/06/08 09:00
PHST- 2007/06/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/08/19 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/06/08 09:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1039/b700627f [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Environ Monit. 2007 Jun;9(6):501-9. doi: 10.1039/b700627f. Epub 2007 Apr 3.