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Formaldehyde emissions from wooden toys: Comparison of different measurement methods and assessment of exposure
- Formaldehyde is considered as carcinogenic and is emitted from particleboards and plywood used in toy manufacturing. Currently, the flask method is frequently used in Europe for market surveillance purposes to assess formaldehyde release from toys, but its concordance to Levels measured in emission test chambers is poor. Surveillance laboratories are unable to afford laborious and expensive emission chamber testing to comply with a new amendment of the European Toy Directive; they need an alternative method that can provide reliable results. Therefore, the application of miniaturised emission test chambers was tested. Comparisons between a 1 m3 emission test chamber and 44 mL microchambers with two particleboards over 28 days and between a 24 L desiccator chamber and the microchambers with three puzzle samples over 10 days resulted in a correlation coefficient r2 of 0.834 for formaldehyde at steady state. The correlation between the results obtained in microchambers vs. flask showed aFormaldehyde is considered as carcinogenic and is emitted from particleboards and plywood used in toy manufacturing. Currently, the flask method is frequently used in Europe for market surveillance purposes to assess formaldehyde release from toys, but its concordance to Levels measured in emission test chambers is poor. Surveillance laboratories are unable to afford laborious and expensive emission chamber testing to comply with a new amendment of the European Toy Directive; they need an alternative method that can provide reliable results. Therefore, the application of miniaturised emission test chambers was tested. Comparisons between a 1 m3 emission test chamber and 44 mL microchambers with two particleboards over 28 days and between a 24 L desiccator chamber and the microchambers with three puzzle samples over 10 days resulted in a correlation coefficient r2 of 0.834 for formaldehyde at steady state. The correlation between the results obtained in microchambers vs. flask showed a high variability over 10 samples (r2: 0.145), thereby demonstrating the error-proneness of the flask method in comparison to methods carried out under ambient parameters. An exposure assessment was also performed for three toy puzzles: indoor formaldehyde concentrations caused by puzzles were not negligible (up to 8 µg/m3), especially when more conservative exposure scenarios were considered.…
Autor*innen: | Morgane EvenORCiD, Olaf WilkeORCiD, Sabine Kalus, P. Schultes, C. Hutzler, A. Luch |
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Dokumenttyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Veröffentlichungsform: | Verlagsliteratur |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Materials |
Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2021 |
Organisationseinheit der BAM: | 4 Material und Umwelt |
4 Material und Umwelt / 4.2 Material-Mikrobiom Wechselwirkungen | |
Veröffentlichende Institution: | Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) |
Verlag: | MDPI |
Jahrgang/Band: | 14 |
Ausgabe/Heft: | 2 (Special issue: Measurement of the environmental impact of materials) |
Erste Seite: | 262-1 |
Letzte Seite: | 262-16 |
DDC-Klassifikation: | Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Sanitär- und Kommunaltechnik; Umwelttechnik |
Freie Schlagwörter: | EN 717-3; Emission test chamber; Flask method; Formaldehyde; Microchamber; Wooden toys |
Themenfelder/Aktivitätsfelder der BAM: | Umwelt |
DOI: | 10.3390/ma14020262 |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-520196 |
Zugehöriger Identifikator: | https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51985 |
Verfügbarkeit des Dokuments: | Datei für die Öffentlichkeit verfügbar ("Open Access") |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 20.01.2021 |
Referierte Publikation: | Ja |
Datum der Eintragung als referierte Publikation: | 20.01.2021 |
Paper des Monats: | Ja |
Schriftenreihen ohne Nummerierung: | Wissenschaftliche Artikel der BAM |