The risk screening for indoor air pollution chemicals in Japan

Risk Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1623-1638

  Azuma, Kenichi ^a   Uchiyama, Iwao ^b   Ikeda, Koichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Health risk; Indoor air pollution; Indoor air quality; Risk assessment; Risk screening

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; FORMALDEHYDE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE;

HEALTH RISK LEVEL; INDOOR AIR QUALITY (IAQ); RISK SCREENING;

HEALTH RISKS;

1,4 DICHLOROBENZENE; ACROLEIN; BENZENE; BENZO[A]PYRENE; FORMALDEHYDE; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; FORMALDEHYDE; HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; JAPAN; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION RISK; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ANIMALS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASMS; NO-OBSERVED-ADVERSE-EFFECT LEVEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SICK BUILDING SYNDROME;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JAPAN;

EID: 37249074418     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2007.00993.x     Document Type: Article

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