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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Variation in lung cancer risk by smoky coal subtype in Xuanwei, China.

30 Oct 2008 Lung cancer rates in Xuanwei County have been among the highest in China for both males and females and have been causally associated with exposure to indoor smoky (bituminous) coal emissions that contain very high levels of polycyclic aromatic ... Read more...

Diacetyl exposures in the flavor manufacturing industry.

30 Oct 2008 Recently, worker exposures to diacetyl, a chemical used in the production of butter popcorn, has been linked to bronchiolitis obliterans, a severe lung disease. This chemical is also used in the flavor industry to confer a buttery flavor to many ... Read more...

Chamber evaluation of a personal, bioaerosol cyclone sampler.

30 Oct 2008 A personal cyclone sampler (cyclone) was operated in a 0.9-m3 chamber, side by side with a 25-mm filter sampler (filter) and either a slit impactor (Air-O-Cell) or a single-stage, multiple-hole, agar impactor (N6). Aerosols of two fungal spores ... Read more...

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• Variation in lung cancer risk by smoky coal subtype in Xuanwei, China. 30 Oct 2008
• Diacetyl exposures in the flavor manufacturing industry. 30 Oct 2008
• Chamber evaluation of a personal, bioaerosol cyclone sampler. 30 Oct 2008
• A review of published quantitative experimental studies on factors affecting laboratory fume hood performance. 30 Oct 2008
• Effect on health from smoking and use of solid fuel in China. Oct 2008
• Effects of smoking and solid-fuel use on COPD, lung cancer, and tuberculosis in China: a time-based, multiple risk factor, modelling study. Oct 2008
• Professional judgment and the interpretation of viable mold air sampling data. 29 Sep 2008
• Indoor air pollution from solid fuel use, chronic lung diseases and lung cancer in Harbin, Northeast China. 29 Sep 2008
• [From the noxious atmosphere of the hospital to nosocomial infections] 28 Sep 2008
• Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial. 21 Sep 2008
• No fire without smoke. 18 Sep 2008
• Neonatal hair nicotine levels and fetal exposure to paternal smoking at home. 16 Sep 2008
• Assessment of matrix effects on methyl benzoate, a potential biomarker for detection of outgassed semi-volatiles from mold in indoor building materials. 7 Sep 2008
• Benzene and toluene concentrations in a hemodialysis room in a medium sized South Korean city. 30 Aug 2008
• Emerging contaminants in car interiors: evaluating the impact of airborne PBDEs and PBDD/Fs. 30 Aug 2008
• Running the risk of poor IAQ. 30 Aug 2008
• Monitoring indoor CO2. 30 Aug 2008
• Controlling diacetyl exposures. 30 Aug 2008
• Occupational rhinitis in damp and moldy workplaces. 30 Aug 2008
• A review of radon measurement studies in Pakistan. 18 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Air Pollution, Indoor'

Definition: The contamination of indoor air.

Descriptor UI: D016902

Alternative terms: Air Pollution, Indoor; Indoor Air Pollution; Pollution, Indoor Air; Air Quality, Indoor; Indoor Air Quality;

Related Mesh Headings: Tobacco Smoke Pollution; Environmental Illness;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; analysis; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; prevention & control; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N06.850.460.100.080;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: IM; specify environ if pertinent (IM)