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Yuhwan Kim, Chang-Ho Choi, Chang-Young Park and Seonghyun Park
In today?s society, where people spend over 90% of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) is crucial for sustaining human life. However, as various indoor activities such as cooking generate diverse types of pollutants in indoor spaces, IAQ has eme...
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Laurentiu Mihai Palade, Mioara Negoi?a, Alina Cristina Adascalului and Adriana Laura Mihai
The chemical group comprising polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) has received prolonged evaluation and scrutiny in the past several decades. PAHs are ubiquitous carcinogenic pollutants and pose a significant threat to human health through their envi...
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Maasago Mercy Sepadi and Vusumuzi Nkosi
According to the best of our knowledge, there are no critical studies to date about associations between the work environment and prevalence of respiratory diseases and their symptoms among urban informal vendors in South Africa. This study followed a ri...
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Mary T. Motloung, Sifiso I. Magagula, Andiswa Kaleni, Tlholohelo S. Sikhosana, Kgomotso Lebelo and Mokgaotsa J. Mochane
Clean water is very important for the good health of society. In South Africa, it is estimated that people need 20 to 50 litres of safe water daily for basic hygiene, drinking, and cooking. In recent times, water bodies have harboured harmful pollutants,...
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Domenica Seminario-Calle, Melissa Ortega-Maldonado, Verónica Pinos-Vélez, Juan Cisneros, Andrés Montero-Izquierdo, Paulina Echeverría-Paredes, Paola Duque-Sarango and Paúl Álvarez-Lloret
The consumption of batteries and cooking oil have been increasing. Most used batteries are disposed of incorrectly, leading to health and environmental problems because of their composition. In a similar form, cooking oil, once used, is often released by...
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Jieqi You, Minghao Wang, Jianru Li, Shen Xu, Changsheng Cao and Shuangquan Shao
In China?s typical high-density cities, in order to meet the residential needs, a Chinese characteristic and typical high-rise residence with multiple flats sharing one staircase has been created. Due to the Chinese cooking methods, such as frying and st...
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Francesco Caridi, Giuseppe Acri, Alberto Belvedere, Vincenza Crupi, Maurizio D?Agostino, Santina Marguccio, Maurizio Messina, Giuseppe Paladini, Valentina Venuti and Domenico Majolino
Flour investigation, in terms of physical and chemical pollutants and mineral content, is of great interest, in view of its high consumption for nutritional purposes. In this study, eleven types of flour (five samples for each one), coming from large ret...
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Francesco Caridi, Maurizio Messina, Alberto Belvedere, Maurizio D?Agostino, Santina Marguccio, Letteria Settineri and Giovanna Belmusto
The analysis of food salt is very important because of its high consumption by the population, for both medicinal and nutritional use. In this study, nine different samples of food salt (Cyprus black, Himalayan pink, Hawaii red, iodized, hyposodic iodize...
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Nuno Canha, Joana Lage, Catarina Galinha, Susana Coentro, Célia Alves and Susana Marta Almeida
This study evaluated the emissions of specific indoor sources usually present in Portuguese dwellings in order to understand their impact on the indoor air quality. With this aim, three typical activities were studied including home heating using two typ...
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Aboubacar Badamassi, Deyi Xu and Boubacar Hamidou Leyla
Residential combustion of fuels, especially solid, for cooking, heating and other activities generates high level emissions that considerably contribute to indoor and outdoor air pollutants concentrations, which adversely affect human health and are like...
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