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Recommendation 11: Federal agencies should design and regularly implement an updated National Human Activity Patterns Survey. Federal and state agencies should add survey ques tions in existing surveys that capture people's activities in indoor environments as they relate to indoor chemistry and indoor chemical exposures.
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Effectively engaging this audience requires scientific and technical professionals to com municate two overarching messages: first, how indoor air quality and indoor chemistry contribute to exposure and their personal health outcomes; and second, how their own actions and behaviors could mitigate or exacerbate exposure. For example, the increased use of consumer-grade indoor air quality monitors may help improve indoor air quality and present opportunities for citizen science but not unless users are also equipped with enough knowledge to interpret the information they provide.
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Standards for Indoor Environmental Quality Unlike regulation of outdoor chemistry, the management of indoor chemistry is at a nascent stage. Regulation of outdoor air has followed scientific discoveries for years.
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Mitigating chemical hazards will depend on many factors and needs to be done in a manner that considers the impacts of any mitigation strategy itself on the indoor environment. This will require efforts in changing building design and operation, altering the use of products and materials, and minimizing the impact of human activity on indoor chemistry.
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Indoor Air 21:191–204. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0668.2010.00703.x.
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Indoor chemistry: Reactions involving indoor pollutants, occurring either in the gas phase or on surfaces. Infiltration: Uncontrolled inward air leakage to conditioned spaces through unintentional openings in ceilings, floors, and walls from unconditioned spaces or the outdoors, caused by differences in pressure.
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. The stack effect is also referred to as the chimney effect, and it helps drive natural ventilation and infiltration.
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: Consumer products made from petrochemicals, including pes ticides, coatings, printing inks, adhesives, cleaning agents, and personal care products, that contain volatile organic compounds. Volatile organic compound (VOC)
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NAS-A00426-Indoor_Chemistry.indd 162 01/10/2022 7:25 AM
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His research interests include the control of chemical, particulate, and biological indoor air contaminants with ventilation, filtration, and air cleaners. He is a past president of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
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She leads field-based assessments of personal, indoor, and outdoor air quality; human behaviors in the home; and health that directly relate to the development and implementation of healthy housing and indoor environmental interventions in diverse domestic and international settings. She earned her PhD in civil engineering, focusing on indoor environmental science and engineering, from the University of Texas at Austin.
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