Concentration, origin and health hazard from fine particle-bound PAH at three characteristic sites in Southern Poland

Wioletta Rogula-Kozłowska; Barbara Kozielska; Krzysztof Klejnowski

doi:10.1007/s00128-013-1060-1

Concentration, origin and health hazard from fine particle-bound PAH at three characteristic sites in Southern Poland

Wioletta Rogula-Kozłowska
, Barbara Kozielska
, Krzysztof Klejnowski

Department of Air Protection (RIE/RIE2)

Polish Academy of Sciences

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Abstract

Suspended particles with the aerodynamic diameters not greater than 2.5 μm (PM_2.5) and 1 μm (PM₁, sub-fraction of PM _2.5) were sampled at three sites: an urban background site, rural background site, and urban traffic site in southern Poland. In total, there were 240 samples taken within 02.08.2009-27.12.2010. Fifteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) were determined in each dust fraction. The averages of the concentration of total PAH (ΣPAH) and of particular PAH, as well as the share of carcinogenic PAH in total PAH (ΣPAH_carc/ΣPAH), carcinogenic equivalent, mutagenic equivalent, and TCDD-toxic equivalent appeared high compared to other areas in the world. Their high values express the significance of health hazard from PM and PM-bound PAH in southern Poland. The diagnostic ratios suggest that PM-bound PAH originate from municipal (PM_1-2.5) and vehicular (PM₁) combustion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	349-355
Number of pages	7
Journal	Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology
Volume	91
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00128-013-1060-1
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013

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Keywords

Carcinogenicity
Diagnostic ratios
Minimum mutagenic concentration MMC
Toxicity equivalence factor TEF

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Toxicology
Pollution
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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