title: Current Indoor Air Quality in Japan.
abstract: People spend more than two thirds of their daily time indoors. Hence, maintaining a healthy indoor environment is indispensable for the prevention of building related illness. In Japan, guidelines for indoor air quality have been established for 13 volatile/semi-volatile organic compounds (VOCs/SVOCs). These guidelines are now under revision by the Committee on Sick House Syndrome: Indoor Air Pollution. In order to gain information on the current indoor air pollutants and their levels, we carried out a nation-wide survey of VOCs and aldehydes in indoor residential air during 2012-2013. In this review, I concisely summarized the current indoor air quality of Japan.
authors.affiliation: Division of Environmental Chemistry, National Institute of Health Sciences.
authors.forename: Hideto
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Jinno
mesh_terms: D016902:Air Pollution, Indoor / Q000032:analysis; D000447:Aldehydes / Q000032:analysis; D004782:Environmental Health; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D018570:Risk Assessment; D018877:Sick Building Syndrome / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds / Q000032:analysis / Q000592:standards
chemical_list: D000447:Aldehydes; D055549:Volatile Organic Compounds