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Table 1
Summary of studies on indoor air quality
Study
Years
Location
Pollutants
Samples
References
Total exposure
assessment
methodology
(TEAM)
1980-1987
750 homes and 10 buildings in
USA
VOCs, SVOCs,
metals,
PAHs
Personal air, outdoor air,
drinking water, breath
Final report (Wallace
1987
)
Building assessment
survey and
evaluation (BASE)
1994-1998
100 public and commercial
buildings in cities of the USA
with populations greater than
one hundred thousand
inhabitants
PM
10
,PM
2.5
,
VOCs,
bioaerosols,
radon, CO
2
,
CO
Indoor
Publications and related
resources (US EPA
2013a
)
National human
exposure assessment
survey (NHEXAS)
1995-1997
More than 400 homes in the USA
Toxic
chemicals:
metals,
pesticides,
VOCs,
PAHs
Breathe; food, drinking water,
and other beverages; soil
and dust around homes;
biological samples (blood,
urine)
Results published in Journal
of Exposure Analysis and
Environmental
Epidemiology 9, number
1 (1999)
EXPOLIS (Air Pollution
Exposure
Distributions of
Adult Urban
Populations in
Europe)
1996-2000
At least 50 representatives in 7
European cities
PM
2.5
, VOCs,
CO, NO
2
Home (indoor and outdoor),
workplaces and personal air
Final report (Jantunen et al.
1999
) EXPOLIS
Database (Hänninen et al.
2002
)
Relationship of indoor,
outdoor and personal
air (RIOPA)
2001-2002
100 homes and 150 individuals
(100 adults and 50 children) in
three urban centres in USA
VOCs,
aldehydes,
PM
2.5
Indoor, outdoor and personal air
Research report (Weisel et al.
2005
)
AIRMEX (European
Indoor Air
Monitoring and
Exposure
Assessment Project)
2003-2008
182 public buildings, schools and
kindergartens; 103 private
home places; 148 samples
from individuals
VOCs
Indoor, outdoor and personal air
Geiss et al. (
2011
)
Kotzias et al. (
2009
)
