Title: Occurrence and exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and their derivatives in a rural Chinese home through biomass fuelled cooking.

Authors: Ding, Junnan; Zhong, Junjun; Yang, Yifeng; Li, Bengang; Shen, Guofeng; Su, Yuhong; Wang, Chen; Li, Wei; Shen, Huizhong; Wang, Bin; Wang, Rong; Huang, Ye; Zhang, Yanyan; Cao, Hongying; Zhu, Ying; Simonich, Staci L M; Tao, Shu

Published In Environ Pollut, (2012 Oct)

Abstract: The concentration and composition of PAHs emitted from biomass cooking fuel were characterized in a rural non-smoking household in northern China. Twenty-two parent PAHs (pPAHs), 12 nitro-PAHs (nPAHs), and 4 oxy-PAHs (oPAHs) were measured in the kitchen, bedroom, and outdoors during both summer and winter. The most severe contamination occurred in the kitchen in the winter, where the daily mean concentrations of pPAHs, nPAHs, and oPAHs were 7500 ýý 4100, 38 ýý 29, and 8400 ýý 9200 ng/m(3), respectively. Our results suggest that the nPAHs were largely from secondary formation in ambient air while oPAHs were either from primary emission of biomass burning or secondary formation from pPAHs in the kitchen. The daily mean benzo(a)pyrene equivalent exposure concentration was as high as 200 ýý 160 ng/m(3) in the winter for the housewife who did the cooking compared to 59 ýý 37 ng/m(3) for the control group that did not cook.

PubMed ID: 22209516

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