Indoor exposure to toluene from printed matter matters: Complementary views from life cycle assessment and risk assessment

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 689-697

  Walser, Tobias ^a   Juraske, Ronnie ^a   Demou, Evangelia ^b   Hellweg, Stefanie ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRINTING; PRINTING PRESSES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE; TOXICITY;

CHARACTERIZATION FACTORS; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; INCREMENTAL CHANGES; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE STAGES; RANGE OF THE VALUES; WORST CASE SCENARIO;

LIFE CYCLE;

TOLUENE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; INDOOR AIR; LIFE CYCLE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE; TOXIC MATERIAL;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; VOLATILIZATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; EUROPE; EXPOSURE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRINTING; PROCEDURES; RISK; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; EUROPE; HOUSING; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRINTING; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOLUENE;

EID: 84891813307     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es403804z     Document Type: Article

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