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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Transactions ID Number: 89-299
Full Name: Frantisek Bozek
Position: Professor
Age: ON
Sex: Male
Address: 65 Kounicova, 662 10 Brno
Country: CZECH REPUBLIC
Tel: 973443170
Tel prefix: +420
Fax: 973443916
E-mail address: frantisek.bozek@unob.cz
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Title of the Paper: genotoxic risks for population in vicinity of traffic communication caused by pahs emissions
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Frantisek Bozek, Vladimir Adamec, Josef Navratil, Josef Kellner, Alena Bumbova, Jiri Dvorak
Email addresses of all the authors: frantisek.bozek@unob.cz,vladimir.adamec@cdv.cz,josef.navratil@unob.cz,josef.kellner@unob.cz,alena.bumbova@unob.cz,jiri.dvorak@unob.cz
Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: The paper deals with the assessment of risk to the population being exposed to the air contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The attention is paid to the population living in the vicinity of roads in a town agglomeration with heavy traffic. The concentrations of 17 types of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons have been detected in the air of selected areas with high frequencies of traffic. Gas chromatography with mass detector was used for the determination. The measured concentrations of individual pollutants with probable human carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic effects were used for the assessment of a summary genotoxic risk. The risk assessment was carried out in compliance with the national methodology, respecting the standard operational procedure of U.S. EPA. It was discovered on the basis of developed appropriate exposure scenarios and the determined concentrations of contaminants that the summary genotoxic risk is getting near the unacceptabl!
e level especially in case of children to the age of six, people with the weakened immune system, asthmatics, and those with heart conditions. The outcomes acquired by the risk assessment within the contribution of individual pollutants correspond with the outcomes acquired with the help of toxicity equivalent.
Keywords: Air, Contamination, Excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR), Exposure scenarios, Genotoxic risk, Health, Lifetime average daily dose (LADD), Particulate matters (PM), Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), Traffic
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Special (Invited) Session: Health risk assessment of air contamination caused by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from traffic
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