Gintowt, Emily

Kutlar Joss, Meltem

Künzli, Nino

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ERRATUMErratum to: Global standards for global health in a globalizedeconomy!Nino Künzli . Meltem Kutlar Joss . Emily GintowtPublished online: 22 October 2015 Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+) 2015Erratum to: Int J Public HealthDOI 10.1007/s00038-015-0729-0Unfortunately, the table shows the past rather than the cur-rent long-term air quality standards for the USA. As of 2015,the US has no federal annual mean standard for PM10whereas the PM2.5 standard has been set at 12 lg/m3.China has partially set stricter long-term targets for PMin larger cities which will be valid nationwide by 2016(70 lg PM10/m3 and 35 lg PM2.5/m3).Country or agency PM10 lg m-3 PM2.5 lg m-3Reference: WHO 20 10AfricaKenya 50 35South Africa 50 25Tanzania 60–90 N/ACentral AmericaCosta Rica 50 N/AEl Salvador 50 15Jamaica 50 N/ANicaragua 50 N/APanama 50 N/ADominican Republic 50 15Country or agency PM10 lg m-3 PM2.5 lg m-3North AmericaCanada N/A 10[British Columbia N/A 10Mexico 40 12Puerto Rico N/A 15USA N/A 12[California 20 12South America[Buenos Aires 50 15Bolivia 50 N/A[La Paz 20 10Brazil 50 N/AChile 50 20Colombia 50 25Ecuador 50 15Peru 50 N/AVenezuela 50 N/AAsia/OceaniaAustralia N/A 8Bangladesh 50 15China (residential areas) 70 35Hong Kong SAR 55 N/AIndia 60 40Iran 20 10Israel 50 25Japan N/A 15Malaysia 50 N/APhilippines 60 N/ARepublic of Korea 50 N/ASingapore N/A 15South Korea 50 25Sri Lanka 50 25The online version of the original article can be found under doi:10.1007/s00038-015-0729-0.N. Künzli (&)  M. Kutlar Joss  E. GintowtSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel Switzerlandand University of Basel, Socinstrasse 57, P.O. Box, 4002 Basel,Switzerlande-mail: nino.kuenzli@unibas.chInt J Public Health (2015) 60:999–1000DOI 10.1007/s00038-015-0743-2123Country or agency PM10 lg m-3 PM2.5 lg m-3Taiwan 65 N/AThailand 50 25Uzbekistan 50 N/AVietnam 50 25EuropeEU 40 25Switzerland 20 (10 under consideration)Turkey 60 N/AStandards set in bold are within 20 % of the science-based valuesasproposed by WHO to protect public healthN/A or countries not listed: no policies could be identified. For othernational air quality standards and for references to the Nationalpolicies: see the website of Ludok at the Swiss Tropical and PublicHealth Institute (http://ludok.swisstph.ch)—‘‘Grenzwerte’’1000 N. Künzli et al.123

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