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Environ Sci Technol

Title:		Semivolatile organic compounds in residential air along the Arizona-Mexico border
Author(s):		Gale RW; Cranor WL; Alvarez DA; Huckins JN; Petty JD; Robertson GL;
Address:		"Columbia Environmental Research Center, United States Geological Survey, 4200 New Haven Road, Columbia, Missouri 65201, USA. rgale@usgs.gov"
Journal Title:		Environ Sci Technol
Year:		2009
Volume:		43
Issue:		9
Page Number:		3054 - 3060
DOI:		10.1021/es803482u
ISSN/ISBN:		0013-936X (Print) 0013-936X (Linking)
Abstract:		"Concerns about indoor air quality and the potential effects on people living in these environments are increasing as more reports about the toxicities and the potential indoor air exposure levels of household-use chemicals and chemicals from housing and fumishing manufacture in air are being assessed. Gas chromatography/mass spectromery was used to confirm numerous airborne contaminants obtained from the analysis of semipermeable membrane devices deployed inside of 52 homes situated along the border between Arizona and Mexico. We also describe nontarget analytes in the organochlorine pesticide fractions of 12 of these homes; this fraction is also the most likely to contain the broadest scope of bioconcentratable chemicals accumulated from the indoor air. Approximately 400 individual components were identified, ranging from pesticides to a wide array of hydrocarbons, fragrances such as the musk xylenes, flavors relating to spices, aldehydes, alcohols, esters and phthalate esters, and other miscellaneous types of chemicals. The results presented in this study demonstrate unequivocally that the mixture of airborne chemicals present indoors is far more complex than previously demonstrated"
Keywords:		"Air/*analysis Air Pollutants/*analysis Arizona Chromatography, Gas Membranes, Artificial Mexico Pesticides/analysis Polychlorinated Biphenyls/analysis Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons/analysis *Residence Characteristics Volatile Organic Compounds/*analysi;"
Notes:		"MedlineGale, Robert W Cranor, Walter L Alvarez, David A Huckins, James N Petty, Jimmie D Robertson, Gary L eng Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. 2009/06/19 Environ Sci Technol. 2009 May 1; 43(9):3054-60. doi: 10.1021/es803482u"