[Current Indoor Air Quality in Japan]

Yakugaku Zasshi. 2016;136(6):791-3. doi: 10.1248/yakushi.15-00285-4.
[Article in Japanese]

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Air Pollution, Indoor* / analysis
  • Aldehydes / analysis
  • Environmental Health*
  • Guidelines as Topic
  • Humans
  • Japan
  • Risk Assessment
  • Sick Building Syndrome / etiology
  • Sick Building Syndrome / prevention & control
  • Volatile Organic Compounds / analysis
  • Volatile Organic Compounds / standards

Substances

  • Aldehydes
  • Volatile Organic Compounds