Semivolatile organic compounds in residential air along the Arizona - Mexico border

Gale, R. W.; Cranor, W. L.; Alvarez, D. A.; Huckins, J. N.; Petty, J. D.; Robertson, G. L.

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Concerns about indoor air quality and the potential effects on people living in these environments are increasing as more reports about the toxicities and the potential indoor air exposure levels of household-use chemicals and chemicals fromhousingandfurnishingmanufactureinairarebeingassessed. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry was used to confirm numerous airborne contaminants obtained from the analysis of semipermeable membrane devices deployed inside of 52 homes situated along the border between Arizona and Mexico. We also describe nontarget analytes in the organochlorine pesticide fractions of 12 of these homes; this fraction is also the most likelytocontainthebroadestscopeofbioconcentratablechemicals accumulated from the indoor air. Approximately 400 individual components were identified, ranging from pesticides to a wide array of hydrocarbons, fragrances such as the musk xylenes, flavors relating to spices, aldehydes, alcohols, esters and phthalate esters, and other miscellaneous types of chemicals. The results presented in this study demonstrate unequivocally that the mixture of airborne chemicals present indoors is far more complex than previously demonstrated. ?? 2009 American Chemical Society.

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Gale, R. W.; Cranor, W. L.; Alvarez, D. A.; Huckins, J. N.; Petty, J. D.; Robertson, G. L.

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Semivolatile organic compounds in residential air along the Arizona - Mexico border; 2009; Article; Journal; Environmental Science and Technology; Gale, R. W.; Cranor, W. L.; Alvarez, D. A.; Huckins, J. N.; Petty, J. D.; Robertson, G. L.