Grantee Research Project Results
2002 Progress Report: A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
EPA Grant Number: R828678C004Subproject: this is subproject number 004 , established and managed by the Center Director under grant R824834
(EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
Center: Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico
Center Director: Alshawabkeh, Akram
Title: A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
Investigators: Beskid, Craig
Institution: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey , Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute
Current Institution: University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey , Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute , The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
EPA Project Officer: Chung, Serena
Project Period: January 2, 2001 through December 31, 2005 (Extended to December 31, 2008)
Project Period Covered by this Report: January 2, 2002 through December 31, 2003
RFA: Mickey Leland National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) (1997) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Air Quality and Air Toxics , Targeted Research
Objective:
The objectives of this research project are to: (1) characterize the distribution of exposures to selected volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for a subset of the U.S. population, by obtaining 48-hour measurements of personal exposure to selected VOCs for 1,000 individuals between the ages of 20 and 59 years, selected as a representative subsample of this subgroup of the U.S. population. Information on levels of exposure to these compounds is essential to determine the need for regulatory mechanisms to reduce the levels of air toxics to which the general population is exposed; and (2) examine the relationship between personal exposure to selected VOCs and health status, as well as demographic, economic, and behavioral characteristics obtained from interview data, and to examine the variation in personal exposures of study subjects to VOCs in relation to these factors.
Progress Summary:
Data collection for the VOC Project was completed in January 2002. Results obtained from the 3-year period of data collection underwent comprehensive quality assurance and quality control reviews during 2002. Upon completion of these reviews, the results will provide a profile of air toxic exposures for a representative national subpopulation. This profile will allow analyses of exposures for some subgroups by demographic characteristics, such as age, gender, race, or socioeconomic status.
Two additional analyses of the National Urban Air Toxics Research Center (NUATRC) VOC Project data were conducted to prepare the data for inclusion in the National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) planned public data release.
The first effort was a storage analysis. The objective of this effort was to examine the effects of extended badge storage after exposure on the reliability of concentration measurements obtained from Organic Vapor Monitor (OVM) badges used in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) project. This study was conducted by an independent contractor, the University of Texas, and was prompted by the need to determine the effects of longer-than-anticipated intervals of storage after exposure for some of the OVM badges used in the VOC Project. The contractors studied the effects of storage for periods of up to 3 months after exposure on measurements of exposures to the target compounds. The study report concluded that, except for 1,3-butadiene and chloroprene, measurements of exposure for the target compounds exhibited very good stability for the time interval observed.
The second effort was designed to support the NUATRC VOC Project quality control data for inclusion in the NCHS public release. NCHS has rigorous standards for quality control and quality assurance data. To comply with these standards, NUATRC has sponsored additional review and analysis of quality control data derived from analyses conducted during the 3-year data collection period. These analyses were in addition to those originally estimated and budgeted to prepare the VOC Project data for public release.
Future Activities:
Data from the 1999-2000 data collection periodwill be included in an NHANES 1999-2000 Public Data Release scheduled for 2003. After all VOC Project data have been compiled, the NUATRC will sponsor research (pending available funding) utilizing the NHANES VOC Project data to investigate such areas as potential associations between personal exposures to certain VOCs and both health status and lifestyles among the VOC Project population, and source apportionment for some VOCs to which the NHANES subjects were exposed in their communities.
Journal Articles:
No journal articles submitted with this report: View all 1 publications for this subprojectSupplemental Keywords:
volatile organic compounds, VOCs, subsample, exposure, air toxics, air pollution, urban, compounds., RFA, Health, Scientific Discipline, PHYSICAL ASPECTS, Air, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, POLLUTANTS/TOXICS, HUMAN HEALTH, particulate matter, Air Pollution, Environmental Chemistry, Health Risk Assessment, air toxics, Exposure, Chemicals, Risk Assessments, Susceptibility/Sensitive Population/Genetic Susceptibility, Physical Processes, Atmospheric Sciences, genetic susceptability, Biology, Risk Assessment, copollutant exposures, sensitive populations, atmospheric particulate matter, cardiopulmonary responses, fine particles, PM 2.5, long term exposure, biomarkers, air pollutants, inhaled pollutants, acute cardiovascular effects, acute lung injury, behavioral characteristics, chronic health effects, lung inflammation, particulate exposure, cardiopulmonary response, industrial air pollution, human exposure, demographics, Acute health effects, inhaled, human susceptibility, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), air contaminant exposure, air quality, co-pollutants, environmental hazard exposures, atmospheric chemistry, toxics, airborne urban contaminants, acute exposure, human health riskRelevant Websites:
http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/mleland/ Exit
http://www.eohsi.rutgers.edu/ Exit
Progress and Final Reports:
Original AbstractMain Center Abstract and Reports:
R824834 Center for Research on Early Childhood Exposure and Development in Puerto Rico Subprojects under this Center: (EPA does not fund or establish subprojects; EPA awards and manages the overall grant for this center).
R824834C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles - A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R824834C002 Cardiopulmonary Response to Particulate Exposure
R824834C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R824834C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R824834C005 Methods Development Project for a Study of Personal Exposures to Toxic Air Pollutants
R824834C006 Relationship Between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA)
R824834C007 Development of the "Leland Legacy" Air Sampling Pump
R824834C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Urban Residences
R824834C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R824834C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C001 Air Toxics Exposures Among Teenagers in New York City and Los Angeles—A Columbia-Harvard Study (TEACH)
R828678C002 Cardiopulmonary Effects of Metal-Containing Particulate Exposure
R828678C003 VOC Exposure in an Industry Impacted Community
R828678C004 A Study of Personal Exposure to Air Toxics Among a Subset of the Residential U.S. Population (VOC Project)
R828678C005 Oxygenated Urban Air Toxics and Asthma Variability in Middle School Children: A Panel Study (ATAC–Air Toxics and Asthma in Children)
R828678C006 Relationship between Indoor, Outdoor and Personal Air (RIOPA). Part II: Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species
R828678C007 Development of the “Leland Legacy” Air Sampling Pump
R828678C008 Source Apportionment of Indoor PAHs in Urban Residences 98-03B
R828678C009 Development of a Personal Cascade Impactor Sampler (PCIS)
R828678C010 Testing the Metals Hypothesis in Spokane
R828678C011 A Pilot Geospatial Analysis of Exposure to Air Pollutants (with Special Attention to Air Toxics) and Hospital Admissions in Harris County, Texas
R828678C012 Impact of Exposure to Urban Air Toxics on Asthma Utilization for the Pediatric Medicaid Population in Dearborn, Michigan
R828678C013 Field Validation of the Sioutas Sampler and Leland Legacy Pump – Joint Project with EPA’s Environmental Technology Validation Program (ETV)
R828678C014 Performance Evaluation of the 3M Charcoal Vapor Monitor for Monitor Low Ambient Concentrations of VOCs
R828678C015 RIOPA Database Development
R828678C016 Contributions of Outdoor PM Sources to Indoor and Personal Exposures: Analysis of PM Species Concentrations” Focused on the PM Speciation and Apportioning of Sources
R828678C017 The Short and Long-Term Respiratory Effects of Exposure to PAHs from Traffic in a Cohort of Asthmatic Children
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