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Project details

Harmful persistent organohalogenated compounds in the urban environment

Project Identification:	GPP503/11/P448
Project Period:	1/2011 - 2/2012
Investor:	Czech Science Foundation
Programme / Project Type:	Post-graduate (doctorate) grants -
MU Faculty/Unit:	Faculty of Science MU Investigator: RNDr. Alice Dvorská, Ph.D.

Due to the wide range and intensity of human activities and the characteristics of the built environment, urban areas are major concentrators, repositories, and emitters of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). POPs are toxic bioaccumulative chemicals and thus pose health risks to humans. As people in industrialized countries spend the majority of their time indoors, information on indoor air quality is of major importance. The project will provide data on concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and brominated flame retardants in indoor and outdoor urban air and subsequently in household dust and urban soil. This will allow for a description of a central European urban environment with focus on POPs in a complex manner using data obtained by sampling in and around cca twenty carefully selected model buildings. Outgassing of POPs from indoors and factors influencing their determined levels will be investigated, too. The project outcomes will be unique for the Czech Republic and contribute to ongoing international studies on urban air and environment quality.