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ArticleInternational archives of occupational and environmental health2016

Exposure to 27 polychlorinated biphenyls in the indoor environment of a workplace: a controlled bio-monitoring study.

Ellen Bøtker Pedersen, N E Ebbehøj, T Göen, H W Meyer, P Jacobsen

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Article in International archives of occupational and environmental health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Ellen Bøtker PedersenDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Copenhagen University, Bispebjerg Hospital, 2400, Copenhagen NV, Denmark. ellen.boetker.pedersen@regionh.dk.
N E EbbehøjDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Copenhagen University, Bispebjerg Hospital, 2400, Copenhagen NV, Denmark.
T GöenInstitute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany.
H W MeyerDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Copenhagen University, Bispebjerg Hospital, 2400, Copenhagen NV, Denmark.
P JacobsenDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Copenhagen University, Bispebjerg Hospital, 2400, Copenhagen NV, Denmark. peter.jacobsen.01@regionh.dk.
Bispebjerg Hospital · DKFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo assess the exposure to a broad-spectrum of polychlorinated biphenyl congeners (PCBs) from the indoor environment through bio-monitoring of people working in a building with PCB-containing materials and elevated PCB levels in the indoor air.

methodsA cross-sectional study comparing the plasma concentration of 27 PCB congeners in 15 people working in a PCB-contaminated building and 30 matched controls.

resultsMedian concentration of eight low-chlorinated PCB congeners was significantly higher in the exposed than in the control group. The sum of median concentrations of tri + tetra-chlorinated PCB was almost ten times higher in the exposed group than in the unexposed, and sums of dioxin-like and non-dioxin-like PCB were both relatively increased by 60 % in the exposed group.

conclusionsThe occupational indoor environment may significantly add to PCB exposure, especially to the lower-chlorinated congeners. Health effect from this little-acknowledged exposure has not yet been documented, but data supporting lack of effect are sparse and research generating information on effect of exposure to specific congeners including at levels relevant for the indoor environment should be encouraged.

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AdultAir Pollution, IndoorCase-Control StudiesCross-Sectional StudiesEnvironmental MonitoringFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedOccupational ExposurePolychlorinated BiphenylsPolychlorinated DibenzodioxinsWorkplacePolychlorinated BiphenylsPolychlorinated DibenzodioxinsBio-monitoringHuman exposureIndoor environmentPCBPolychlorinated biphenyls

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