Assessing exposure of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in car cabins: Current understanding and future challenges in developing a standardized methodology

Lexén, Jenny; Bernander, Maria; Cotgreave, Ian A.; Andersson, Patrik L.

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106847

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“…A wide variety of industries and occupations use benzene or benzene-containing solvents and adhesives which can affect the health of workers [ 38 ]. Also, Lexen et al concluded that total volatile organic compounds (VOCs) concentrations were initially very high in cars which reached the market one to two months after manufacture [ 39 ]. In a study performed by Harati et al, the exposure to benzene was higher than TLV (0.5 PPM) among workers in an automobile manufacturing factory in Iran [ 40 ].…”

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Health risk assessment of exposure to various vapors and fumes in a factory of automobile manufacturing

Khoshakhlagh¹,

Yazdanirad²,

Saberi³

et al. 2023

Heliyon

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Health risk assessment of exposure to various vapors and fumes in a factory of automobile manufacturing

Khoshakhlagh¹,

Yazdanirad²,

Saberi³

et al. 2023

Heliyon

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“…The low concentrations of SVOCs in parking lot dust and comparable levels in hotel, mosque, and residential dust may suggest that temperature plays a signi cant role in their deposition of these chemicals, given that the temperature in parking lots is higher than in other indoor microenvironments [Bi et al, 2015]. For vehicles, high temperatures during parking may aid in the release of SVOCs from the interior materials, and when the air conditioner is put on, the colder air helps the chemicals settle on the dust [Ali et al, 2021;Lexén et al,. 2021;Tokumura et al, 2017;Zulauf et al, 2019].…”

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Dust dynamics: distribution patterns of semi-volatile organic chemicals across particle sizes in varied indoor microenvironments

Ali

2024

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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An extensive analysis of the distribution patterns of three distinct classes of semi-volatile organic chemicals (SVOCs)-phthalates (PAEs), organophosphate ame retardants (OPFRs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) -across four discrete size fractions of dust (25, 50, 100, and 200 μm) was conducted. The dust samples were sourced from AC lter, covered car parking lots, households, hotels, mosques, and car oors. To generate the four fractions, ten dust samples from each microenvironment were pooled and sieved utilizing sieving apparatus with the appropriate mesh size. Selected SVOCs were quanti ed utilizing gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in electron impact (EI) mode. Results revealed varying degree of contamination with dust fractions from car parking lots dust showed the lowest chemical contamination, while car oor dust was the most contaminated. SVOCs concentrations exhibited a tendency to increase as the size of dust particles decreased, particularly evident in car oor and car parking lot dust across the microenvironments analyzed. Among SVOCs, PAEs emerged as the predominant contributors with >90% followed by OPFRs and PAHs. Among analyzed microenvironments, car oor dust exhibited the highest levels of PAHs and OPFRs, this align logically with the fact that numerous interior components of cars are treated with OPFRs to adhere to re safety regulations. Furthermore, petroleum products are a major source of PAHs in the environment and all the sampled cars in the study had combustion engines. Consequently, car dust is more likely to be polluted with PAHs stemming from petroleum combustion.Heavy metals and brominated ame retardants have increased with decreasing dust particles in a few investigations, however, this is the rst study analyzing these SVOCs in different fractions of dust from various microenvironments. However, aside from two speci c microenvironments, the observed pattern of escalating SVOC concentrations with smaller dust particle sizes was not corroborated among the examined microenvironments. This divergence in concentration trends suggests the potential involvement of supplementary variables in in uencing SVOC distributions within dust particles.Ethical Approval: Ethical approval was not required for this study.Consent to Participate: Since no human participation involved therefore no consent to participation was required. Detailed questionnaire from the sampled households, mosques, hotels, and cars were lled by the participants which ful ll the requirement for their consent to participate.

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“…1 These compounds include organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) generated through agricultural activities, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), Phthalic acid esters (PAEs) from industrial processes, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) derived from fossil fuel combustion. [2][3][4] SVOCs, with a relatively low vapor pressure (10 −9 to 10 pa), comprise this category of organic compounds, and have been implicated in a range of adverse health outcomes in humans, including endocrine disorders, allergies, asthma, and cancer. 5 Due to their high affinity for soil or sediment and low rates of chemical or biological degradation, SVOCs are highly persistent in the environment, resist photolysis, and accumulate in soil or sediment before volatilizing back into the atmosphere.…”

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Development and validation of an improved QuEChERS method for the extraction of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) from complex soils

Lou,

Wang,

Zhao

et al. 2023

Anal. Methods

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Assessing exposure of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) in car cabins: Current understanding and future challenges in developing a standardized methodology

Cited by 26 publications

References 85 publications

Health risk assessment of exposure to various vapors and fumes in a factory of automobile manufacturing

Health risk assessment of exposure to various vapors and fumes in a factory of automobile manufacturing

Dust dynamics: distribution patterns of semi-volatile organic chemicals across particle sizes in varied indoor microenvironments

Development and validation of an improved QuEChERS method for the extraction of semi-volatile organic compounds (SVOCs) from complex soils

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