Monitoring of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a review

Table 7 PAH concentrations in area (Vyskocil et al. 2000)^a

Place	Total PAH^b (ng/m³)		Pyrene (ng/m³)
Place	Outdoor	Indoor	Outdoor	Indoor
Kindergarten in a polluted area	36.1; 17.9; 14.8	2.8; 2.6; 3.6	5.1; 1.6; 1.3	0.4; 0.3; 0.5
Kindergarten in a nonpolluted area	1.6; 2.2; 1.9	1.0; 2.8; 2.5	0.3; 0.4; 0.4	0.2; 0.5; 0.5
Montreal highway Décairie (1989–1991)^c	62.7
London (1991) ^d	166

^aIndividual values
^bTotal of 12 PAH: phenanthrene, anthracene, fluoranthene, pyrene, benzo(a)anthracene, chrysene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, benzo(k)fluoranthene, benzo(a)pyrene, dibenzo(a,h)anthracene, benzo(ghi)perylene, indeno(1,2,3-c,d) pyrene
^cSum of 12 PAH calculated by the authors of this paper from the results presented by Ringuette et al. (1993)
^dSum of 15 PAH (Halsall et al. 1994)