Chemical analysis of fire effluents

LUNDGREN STRIDH Chemical Analysis of Fire Effluents... 

Exposure to toxic fire effluents can lead to a combination of physiological and behavioral effects of which physical incapacitation, loss of motor coordination, disorientation are only a few. Furthermore, survivors of a fire may experience postexposure effects, complications, and burn injuries, leading to death or long-term impairment. The major effects, such as incapacitation or death, may be predicted using existing rat lethality data, as described in ISO 1334431 or more recently, based on the best available estimates of human toxicity thresholds as described in ISO 13571,5 by quantifying the fire effluents in different fire conditions in small-scale tests, using only chemical analysis, without animal exposure. 

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