title: Pesticide detection in air samples from contrasted houses and in their inhabitants' hair.
abstract: In order to identify associations between indoor air contamination and human exposure to pesticides, hair samples from 14 persons (9 adults and 5 children below 12 years) were collected simultaneously with the air of their 5 contrasted houses. Three houses were situated in Alsace (France), one in Lorraine (France) and one in Luxembourg (Luxembourg). Houses were located in urban (n=3), semi-urban (n=1) and rural areas (n=1). Twenty five (25) pesticides were detected at least once in indoor air samples and 20 pesticides were detected at least once in hair samples. The comparison between hair and air samples for the same sampling periods shows that pesticides detected in the two matrices were not necessarily associated. Exposure profiles varied from one home to another but also between inhabitants of the same home, suggesting that exposure can be different between inhabitants of the same home. This study demonstrated the usefulness and the complementarity of hair analysis, for the personalized biomonitoring of people exposure to pesticides, and air analysis, for the identification of airborne exposure and house contamination.
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère, Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie, l'Environnement et la Santé (UMR 7515 CNRS - Université de Strasbourg), Strasbourg, France; Laboratory of Analytical Human Biomonitoring, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Raeppel
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Analytical Human Biomonitoring, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Salquèbre
authors.affiliation: Groupe de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère, Institut de Chimie et Procédés pour l'Energie, l'Environnement et la Santé (UMR 7515 CNRS - Université de Strasbourg), Strasbourg, France. Electronic address: mmillet@unistra.fr.
authors.forename: Maurice
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Millet
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Analytical Human Biomonitoring, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
authors.forename: Brice M R
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Appenzeller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis*; D002648:Child; D004781:Environmental Exposure / Q000032:analysis* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005602:France; D006197:Hair / Q000737:chemistry*; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008189:Luxembourg; D010575:Pesticides / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D010575:Pesticides
keywords: Air analysis; Exposure; Hair analysis; Indoor environment; Pesticide