Estimating household exposure to pyrethroids and the relative contribution of inhalation pathway in a sample of Japanese children

• Published in: Environmental science and pollution research international Vol. 28; no. 15; pp. 19310 - 19324
• Main Authors: Yoshida, Toshiaki, Mimura, Mayumi, Sakon, Naomi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.04.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; air pollutants; Air Pollutants - analysis; Air pollution; Air Pollution, Indoor; Airborne sensing; Aquatic Pollution; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Bedrooms; bifenthrin; Carcinogenicity; Carcinogens; Child; Children; Culicidae; Earth and Environmental Science; Ecotoxicology; Environment; Environmental Chemistry; Environmental Health; Environmental science; Exposure; Humans; Indoor air pollution; Indoor air quality; Indoor environments; Inhalation; Insect Repellents; Insecticides; Japan; Metabolites; Pollutants; pyrethrins; Pyrethrins - analysis; Pyrethroids; Repellents; reproductive toxicology; Research Article; Respiration; Toxicity; urine; Waste Water Technology; Water Management; Water Pollution Control; Japan; Pyrethroid; Urine; Metabolite; Child; Indoor air; Daily intake; Inhalation

Several synthetic pyrethroids are suspected to have carcinogenicity or reproductive toxicity. However, there is little knowledge about indoor air pollution in residences or the extent of intake by the residents of the newly developed pyrethroids, transfluthrin, profluthrin, and metofluthrin, althoug...