Carcinogenic and mutagenic risk associated to airborne particle-phase polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A source apportionment

Seasonal trends and spatial variations of PM10-bounded polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Veneto Region, Northeast Italy

“…TEFs from Nisbet and LaGoy (1992) were used as the most reliable indexes for studies on the toxicity of PAHs in atmospheric particulate matter and to be consistent with similar recent studies (e.g., Silva et al, 2010;Han et al, 2011;Delgado-Saborit et al, 2011;Masiol et al, 2012a;Cristale et al, 2012;Zhou and Zhao, 2012). Similarly, just with the replacement of TEF with MEF (Mutagenic Equivalency Factors) proposed by Durant et al (1996), the mutagenicity related to BaP (BaP MEQ ) was also calculated.…”

Attributing risk burden of PM2.5-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to major emission sources: Case study in Guangzhou, south China

“…To more reasonably assess the carcinogenicity of PAHs, BaP carcinogenic equivalent concentration (BaP eq ) was calculated as: BaP eq ¼ P n i¼1 PAH i  TEF i . TEF i is the toxic equivalency factor (TEF) for each PAH i taken from Masiol et al (2012): 0.001 for Flu and Pyr, 0.01 for Chr and BghiP, 0.1 for BaA, BbF, BkF, BeP, and IcdP, and 1 for BaP and DahA. The average levels of BaP eq at SZ, YJ, JL and WQS were 1.37 ± 0.27 ng/m 3 (0.15e8.97 ng/m 3 ), 1.11 ± 0.14 ng/m 3 (0.20e4.44 ng/m 3 ), 2.31 ± 0.43 ng/m 3 (0.07e10.84 ng/m 3 ) and 1.56 ± 0.35 ng/m 3 (0.07e8.35 ng/m 3 ), with 55.4%, 48.5%, 70.1% and 55.4% of the samples, respectively exceeding the NAAQS (GB 3095-2012), 1 ng/m 3 , indicating higher cancer risk for people at JL than at other sites.…”

Characterization of particulate polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in an urban atmosphere of central-southern Spain

“…Due to not only B[a]P is carcinogenic and because the Directive 2004/10//CE (EU 2004) also considers other relevant Hanedar et al (2008) or Masiol et al (2012). On the other hand, it is possible to measure the lung cancer risk from BaP concentration calculated.…”