Pesticides in the Indoor Environment of Residential Houses: A Case Study in Strasbourg, France.

ABSTRACT: Indoor environmental exposure to pesticides has become one of the major concerns that might adversely affect human health and development. People spend most of their lifetime in enclosed indoor environments where they might inhale harmful toxic chemicals, such as pesticides, dispersed either in particulate or in a gas phase. In this study, an assessment of pesticide contamination in indoor environments was conducted. The study covered nine houses during one year, starting from February 2016 and ending in February 2017, in which both air and dust samples were assessed for their potential contamination with 50 pesticides. The results showed that all the assessed houses were contaminated by several pesticides, especially with the allethrin pesticide (detection frequency (DF) = 100%). The high

SUBMITTER: Al-Alam J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9658446 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature