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Some Studies of Human Reactions from the Emissions of Building Materials and Office Machines

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Chemical, Microbiological, Health and Comfort Aspects of Indoor Air Quality — State of the Art in SBS

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Both building materials and office machines emit volatile organic compounds thus demanding for methods to evaluate the health aspects of their emission. Chamber studies with subjects differ from field studies in that measurements and reporting of symptoms can be carried out simultaneously. The exposure of voluntary subjects to selected building materials, and to a simulated office environment with selected office machines have been studied, respectively. A multidisciplinary approach has been used by combining air quality measurements with clinical investigations, the irritating potency of a mouse bioassay, and air quality evaluations on the decipol scale. This has given important information about the pollutants emitted, their relation to objective air quality measurements, and the tear film quality of the eye.

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Wolkoff, P. (1992). Some Studies of Human Reactions from the Emissions of Building Materials and Office Machines. In: Knöppel, H., Wolkoff, P. (eds) Chemical, Microbiological, Health and Comfort Aspects of Indoor Air Quality — State of the Art in SBS. Eurocourses: Chemical and Environmental Science, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8088-5_15

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