The INDEX Project - Critical Appraisal of the Setting and Implementation of Indoor Exposure Limits in the EU

The INDEX project (Critical Appraisal of the Setting and Implementation of Indoor Exposure Limits in the EU), coordinated by the EU/JRC and funded by DG SANCO, has been finished in December 2004. The project was carried out in collaboration with a Steering Committee of leading European experts in the area of indoor air pollution. Scope of INDEX was to identify priorities and to assess the needs for a Community strategy and action plan in the area of indoor air pollution. The key issues that have been addressed within the project are: - the setting up of a list of compounds to be measured and regulated in indoor environments with priority, on the basis of health impact criteria - to provide suggestions and recommendations on potential exposure limits for these compounds and - to provide information on links with existing knowledge, ongoing studies, legislation etc. at world scale. Suggestions and recommendations on potential exposure limits or other exposure control actions were defined for five prioritised compounds; formaldehyde, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, benzene, and naphthalene.JRC.I.5-Physical and chemical exposure

Chimie de la neige (Na, Cl, NO_3, SO_4) a la station Pole Sud

SIGLECNRS T Bordereau / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueFRFranc

State-of-the-Art in the Measurement of Volatile Organic Compounds Emitted from Building Products: Results of Eurpoean Interlaboratory Comparison.

Eighteen laboratories from 10 European countries participated in a comparison organized in the frame of the VOCEM project, a 2.5 year research collaboration between 4 research institutes and 4 industrial companies. The scope of the project was to improve the procedure used to measure VOC emitted from building materials and products in small test chambers. The interlaboratory comparison included the GC-MS determination of 5 target compounds from casrpet, 8 from PVC cushion vinyl and 2 from paint. For the first time, chamber recovery (sinks), homogeneity of solid materials and possible contamination during transport were tested. The results show that the intralaboratory variance (random errors) is much smaller than the interlaboratory variance (systematic errors). Main causes of interlab. discrepancies were (a) analytical errors; (b) losses of the heaviest compounds due to sorption on the chamber walls; C non homogeneity of the materials. The output of this work concerns both the objective of labelling materials with regard to their VOC emissions and the pre-standard drafted by CEN for this type of determination.JRC.(EI)-Environment Institut

Caracterisation des emissions en composes organiques volatils des peintures

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Etude des mecanismes d'adsorption-desorption des polluants organiques gazeux sur les surfaces des revetements de sols et de mur

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Methodologie multidisciplinaire d'enquete de qualite d'air dans les immeubles de bureaux

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Risk Assessment in Relation to Indoor Air Quality. Report No. 22.

Abstract not availableJRC.(EI)-Environment Institut

Etude des mecanismes d'adsorption-desorption des polluants organiques gazeux sur les surfaces des revetements de sols et de mur

Available from INIST (FR), Document Supply Service, under shelf-number : RP 400 (2010) / INIST-CNRS - Institut de l'Information Scientifique et TechniqueSIGLEAgence de l'Environnement et de la Maitrise de l'Energie (ADEME),= 75 - Paris (France)FRFranc