« Previous AbstractEmissions of VOCs From Polymer-Based Consumer Products: From Emission Data of Real Samples to the Assessment of Inhalation Exposure    Next AbstractExposure Assessment of Toxicologically Relevant Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Polymer-Based Costume Masks »

Indoor Air

Title:		Emissions of volatile organic compounds from polymer-based consumer products: Comparison of three emission chamber sizes
Author(s):		Even M; Hutzler C; Wilke O; Luch A;
Address:		"Department of Chemical and Product Safety, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Berlin, Germany. Division 4.2 - Materials and Air Pollutants, Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin, Germany"
Journal Title:		Indoor Air
Year:		2020
Volume:		20191006
Issue:		1
Page Number:		40 - 48
DOI:		10.1111/ina.12605
ISSN/ISBN:		1600-0668 (Electronic) 0905-6947 (Linking)
Abstract:		"The ISO 16000 standard series provide guidelines for emission measurements of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from building materials. However, polymer-based consumer products such as toys may also release harmful substances into indoor air. In such cases, the existing standard procedures are unsuitable for official control laboratories due to high costs for large emission testing chambers. This paper aims at developing and comparing alternative and more competitive methods for the emission testing of consumer products. The influence of the emission chamber size was investigated as smaller chambers are more suited to the common size of consumer products and may help to reduce the costs of testing. Comparison of the performance of a 203 L emission test chamber with two smaller chambers with the capacity of 24 L and 44 mL, respectively, was carried out by using a polyurethane reference material spiked with 14 VOCs during the course of 28 days. The area-specific emission rates obtained in the small chambers were always similar to those of the 203 L reference chamber after a few hours. This implies that smaller chambers can provide at least useful numbers on the extent of polymer-based consumer product emissions into indoor air, thereby supporting meaningful exposure assessments"
Keywords:		"Air Pollution, Indoor/*analysis Construction Materials/*analysis *Environmental Monitoring Polymers/*analysis Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysis comparison consumer products emission chamber reference material size volatile organic compounds;"
Notes:		"MedlineEven, Morgane Hutzler, Christoph Wilke, Olaf Luch, Andreas eng Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't England 2019/09/24 Indoor Air. 2020 Jan; 30(1):40-48. doi: 10.1111/ina.12605. Epub 2019 Oct 6"