Human exposure assessment for plasticizers in the indoor environment

2 Human Exposure Assessment for Plasticizers in the Indoor Environment 

The irqrut of plasticizers into the indoor enviromnent may either result from a direct application (e.g,. phthalates in sprays for fighting insects, in repellents or hair sprays), from 

Health and Safety Issues with Plasticizers and Plasticized Materials 

Oral intake of phthalates and organophosphates, inhalative intake of phthalates, respeetively, are eomplied in Table 17.5.8. In the ease of DEHP some micrograms per kilogram body weight and day may be ingested with house dust. But up to 21 pg/kg bw/d 

An excellent review on dust as a metric for use in residential and building exposme assessment and source characterization was recently pubhshed by Lioy et al.  

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