The total human environmental exposure study (THEES) to benzo (A) pyrene

Conference · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987 · Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA)

OSTI ID:5134169

Lioy, P J; Waldman, J M ^[1]; Greenberg, A ^[2]; Harkov, R; Pietarinan, C ^[3]

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1. UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ (US)
2. New Jersey Inst. of Tech., Newark, NJ (USA)
3. New Jersey Dept. of Environmental Protection, Trenton, NJ (USA)

The traditional approach to examining the concentration patterns of pollutants or the uptake by humans usually has been to focus on a single medium, e.g. air or water. In recent years progress has been made in extending study designs to multimedia; however, these have usually been limited in scope and the data available from each medium are not always compatible for estimating exposure. The exposure assessment guidelines developed by EPA have illustrated some of the important types of source, measurement and pathway information necessary to conduct a multimedia analysis for a pollutant or class of pollutants. However, at present there is a lack of systematic approaches to the quantitative study of multimedia human exposures. The need to systematically examine exposure led to the Total Human Environmental Exposure Study (THEES). It is a four year project that includes microenvironmental, personal monitoring protocols, and the development of human exposure models. In this paper the experimental design is described, and the indoor-outdoor air results of the first phase, a Winter, 1987 microenvironmental study, are presented.

• OSTI ID: 5134169
• Report Number(s): CONF-870695--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Proceedings, Annual Meeting, Air Pollution Control Association; (USA) Journal Volume: 3
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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