Issue 3, 2011
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Journal of Environmental Monitoring

Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust†

Elvira V. Bräuner,*a   Philipp Mayer,b   Lars Gunnarsen,c   Katrin Vorkampb  and  Ole Raaschou-Nielsena  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
E-mail: elvira@cancer.dk
Tel: +45 3525 7713

b Department of Environmental Chemistry and Microbiology, National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

c Danish Building Research Institute, Hørsholm, Denmark

Abstract

Organochlorine pesticides are present in the environment and suspected of causing serious health effects. Diet has been the main exposure source, but indoor source release is gaining focus. Within a monitoring study of polychlorinated biphenyls of Danish buildings built during the 1960s and 1970s, we coincidently determined extreme levels of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in two of ten random samples. This raises concern and further large scale investigations are warranted to confirm this.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C0EM00750A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Dec 2010
Accepted
07 Jan 2011
First published
25 Jan 2011

J. Environ. Monit., 2011,13, 522-526

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Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides in indoor dust

E. V. Bräuner, P. Mayer, L. Gunnarsen, K. Vorkamp and O. Raaschou-Nielsen, J. Environ. Monit., 2011, 13, 522 DOI: 10.1039/C0EM00750A

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