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American Healthy Homes Survey: A National Study of Residential Pesticides Measured from Floor Wipes.
Citation:
STOUT, D. M., K. D. BRADHAM, P. P. EGEGHY, P. A. JONES, C. W. CROGHAN, P. Ashley, E. Pinzer, W. Friedman, M. C. BRINKMAN, M. G. Nishioka, AND D. Cox. American Healthy Homes Survey: A National Study of Residential Pesticides Measured from Floor Wipes. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Indianapolis, IN, 43(12):4294-4300, (2009).
Impact/Purpose:
The National Exposure Research Laboratory′s (NERL) Human Exposure and Atmospheric Sciences Division (HEASD) conducts research in support of EPA′s mission to protect human health and the environment. HEASD′s research program supports Goal 1 (Clean Air) and Goal 4 (Healthy People) of EPA′s strategic plan. More specifically, our division conducts research to characterize the movement of pollutants from the source to contact with humans. Our multidisciplinary research program produces Methods, Measurements, and Models to identify relationships between and characterize processes that link source emissions, environmental concentrations, human exposures, and target-tissue dose. The impact of these tools is improved regulatory programs and policies for EPA.
Description:
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with the United States Environmental Protection Agency conducted a survey measuring lead, allergens, and insecticides in a randomly selected nationally representative sample of resodential homes. Multistage sampling with clustering was used to select the 1,131 homes of which a subset of 500 randomly selected homes were included in the study forhe collection of hard surface floor wipes . Samples were collected by trained field technicians between June, 2005
