Canadian House Dust Study: Population-based concentrations, loads and loading rates of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead, and zinc inside urban homes

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 443, Issue , 2013, Pages 520-529

  Rasmussen, Pat E ^a,b   Levesque, Christine ^a   Chénier, Marc ^a,b   Gardner, H David ^a,b   Jones Otazo, Heather ^c   Petrovic, Sanya ^a  

^a Environmental Health Center   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Exposure assessment; House age; Indoor environment; Metals; Tobacco smoke; Vacuum sampling

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION DATA; DUST LOADING; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; HOUSE DUST; INDOOR DUST LOADING; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LOADING RATE; METAL CONCENTRATIONS; METAL LOADINGS; METAL SOURCES; TOBACCO SMOKE; URBAN SETTINGS; WINTER SEASONS;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DUST; HOUSES; INDUSTRY; LEAD; METALS; NICKEL; POLLUTION; ZINC;

LOADING;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; COPPER; LEAD; NICKEL; ZINC;

ARSENIC; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COPPER; DUST; INDOOR AIR; LEAD; NICKEL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SMOKING; URBAN AREA; ZINC;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; HOUSE DUST; HOUSE DUST LOADING; HOUSE DUST LOADING RATE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL AREA; METAL LOADING; METAL LOADING RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; WINTER;

CANADA; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METALS, HEAVY; SMOKING; URBAN POPULATION;

CANADA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 84870383116     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.11.003     Document Type: Article

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