PMID- 25329599
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20150730
LR  - 20181202
IS  - 1520-5851 (Electronic)
IS  - 0013-936X (Linking)
VI  - 48
IP  - 24
DP  - 2014 Dec 16
TI  - Current challenges in air sampling of semivolatile organic contaminants: sampling 
      artifacts and their influence on data comparability.
PG  - 14077-91
LID - 10.1021/es502164r [doi]
AB  - With current science and policy needs, more attention is being given to expanding 
      and improving air sampling of semivolatile organic contaminants (SVOCs). However, 
      a wide range of techniques and configurations are currently used (active and 
      passive samplers, different deployment times, different sorbents, etc.) and as 
      the SVOC community looks to assess air measurements on a global scale, questions 
      of comparability arise. We review current air sampling techniques, with a focus 
      on sampling artifacts that can lead to uncertainties or biases in reported 
      concentrations, in particular breakthrough, degradation, meteorological 
      influences, and assumptions regarding passive sampling. From this assessment, we 
      estimate the bias introduced for SVOC concentrations from all factors. Due to the 
      effects of breakthrough, degradation, particle fractions and sampler uptake 
      periods, some current passive and active sampler configurations may underestimate 
      certain SVOCs by 30-95%. We then recommend future study design, appropriateness 
      of sampler types for different study goals, and finally, how the SVOC community 
      should move forward in both research and monitoring to best achieve comparability 
      and consistency in air measurements.
FAU - Melymuk, Lisa
AU  - Melymuk L
AD  - Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX), Faculty of 
      Science, Masaryk University , Kamenice 5/753, Pavilon A29, Brno 62500, Czech 
      Republic.
FAU - Bohlin, Pernilla
AU  - Bohlin P
FAU - Sanka, Ondrej
AU  - Sanka O
FAU - Pozo, Karla
AU  - Pozo K
FAU - Klanova, Jana
AU  - Klanova J
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PT  - Review
DEP - 20141203
PL  - United States
TA  - Environ Sci Technol
JT  - Environmental science & technology
JID - 0213155
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Volatile Organic Compounds)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/*analysis
MH  - Artifacts
MH  - Environmental Monitoring/*methods
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis
EDAT- 2014/10/21 06:00
MHDA- 2015/08/01 06:00
CRDT- 2014/10/21 06:00
PHST- 2014/10/21 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/10/21 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2015/08/01 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1021/es502164r [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Sci Technol. 2014 Dec 16;48(24):14077-91. doi: 10.1021/es502164r. Epub 
      2014 Dec 3.