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Sources, Nature and Levels of Air Pollutants

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Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer

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Abstract

A broad spectrum of potentially toxic chemicals spanning many inorganic and organic structural categories, is released into local, regional and global atmospheres from both natural and anthropogenic sources and from both industrialised [1–13]. In one data base compilation, more than 2,800 atmospheric compounds were identified of which more than 300 (about 11%) have been bioassayed [1]. More than 65,000 chemicals are used in commerce in the industrialised nations of the world. Many of these substances, e.g., industrial solvents, VOCs, polychlorinated biphenyls, pesticides, and aerosol products containing volatile pro-pellants and active ingredients (as well as trace contaminants such as chlorinated dibenzodioxins and furans) are emitted directly or indirectly into the atmosphere because of human activities [3,11–13]. These atmospheric pollutants can be transported over great distances to further exhibit a variety of deleterious impacts on human health and the environment quite distant from their original emission sites [1–13].

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Fishbein, L. (1993). Sources, Nature and Levels of Air Pollutants. In: Tomatis, L. (eds) Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution and Human Cancer. Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78197-1_3

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