US EPA

746858 

Journal Article 

[Plasticizers and flame retardants in household dust - Part 1: Phthalates] 

Nagorka, R; Conrad, A; Scheller, C; Süßenbach, B; Moriske, HJ 

2010 

Yes 

Gefahrstoffe, Reinhaltung der Luft / Air Quality Control
ISSN: 0949-8036
EISSN: 1436-4891 

70 

3 

70-76 

German 

WOS:000276678700003 

is related to other part(s) 1598283 [Plasticizers and flame retardants in household dust - Part 2: Non-phthalates and flame retardants]

More than 600 households were investigated in the course of the German Environmental Survey for Children in the years from 2003 to 2006. The 63-?m sieving fraction of the house dust samples was analyzed for a broad range of plasticizers and several flame retardants. For the first time the new non-phthalate plasticizer diisononyl cyclohexanedicarboxylate (DINCH) was detd. on a large scale in a representative study. The results for the detn. of 11 phthalates are presented here. In a second paper the data of non-phthalate plasticizers will be reported. Dust concns. (median) amounted to 500 mg di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate (DEHP)/kg, 120 mg diisononyl phthalate (DINP)/kg, and 44 mg diisodecyl phthalate (DIDP)/kg. The three most abundant 95th-percentiles were 1700 mg DEHP/kg, 620 mg DINP/kg, and 320 mg diisoheptyl phthalate (DIHP)/kg. For n-dibutyl phthalate (n-DBP) the 95th-percentile was 120 mg/kg. Therefore the results reflect a clear shift in the occurrence of phthalic acid esters in the indoor environment during the last years.