Organochlorine pesticides in the indoor air of a theatre and museum in the Czech Republic: Inhalation exposure and cancer risk
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717319058?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969717319058?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.203" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.203</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Organochlorine pesticides in the indoor air of a theatre and museum in the Czech Republic: Inhalation exposure and cancer risk
Original language description
Organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) have been used to preserve the integrity of historical buildings or to protect collections of artefacts at potentially large volumes and often without detailed application records. Previous research has focused on the efficiency of remediation at contaminated sites (where identified), as well as improvement of preservation techniques and workplace health and safety. Few studies have assessed the human health risks from occupational exposure to OCPs in buildings of cultural and historical importance. Thus, potential risks may remain unidentified. In the present study, OCPs in indoor air were measured in a baroque theatre and a natural history museum in the Czech Republic, both of which had suspected past indoor application. In the theatre attic p,p'-dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene (p,p'-DDE) levels in air were up to 190 ng m(-3), confirming past indoor use of p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (p,p'-DDT). There was also evidence of gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH) use in the theatre (max gamma-HCH in air of 56 ng m(-3)). Yet, the cancer risk (CR) from occupational exposure via inhalation (Exp(i)) to OCPs in the theatre was low (CR < 4.0 x 10(-6)). gamma-HCH was found at elevated levels in air of the museum (max gamma-HCH in air of 15,000 ng m(-3)). CR from Exp(i) in the museum was moderate to high (>1 x 10(-4)). Our results show the CR through Exp(i) to OCPs in buildings, such as museums can still be significant enough to warrant mitigation measures, e.g., remediation.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Science of the Total Environment
ISSN
0048-9697
e-ISSN
1879-1026
Volume of the periodical
609
Issue of the periodical within the volume
December
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
598-606
UT code for WoS article
000410352900065
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85026214766