Infant exposure to emissions of volatile organic compounds from crib mattresses

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3541-3549

  Boor, Brandon E ^a   Järnström, Helena ^b   Novoselac, Atila ^a   Xu, Ying ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

BREATHING ZONES; CHAMBER EXPERIMENTS; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; EMISSION RATES; FOAM MATERIAL; MICROENVIRONMENTS; POLYURETHANE FOAM; THERMAL MANIKIN;

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

POLYESTER; POLYURETHAN FOAM; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); FOAM; INDOOR AIR; NEONATE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMER; SLEEP; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ARTICLE; BED; CHILD HEALTH; EXPOSURE; FOAM; SLEEP TIME; ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT;

BEDS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT EQUIPMENT; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84898977464     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es405625q     Document Type: Article

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