Importance
of Dermal Absorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Derived from Barbecue
Fumes
In
2012 there has been three million premature deaths and there have been 14%
deaths due to lung cancer by ambient air polluted areas around the world.
Pollution is mainly caused by industrial emissions and fossil fuel burning, but
those are not the only reasons for this matter. One thing mostly everyone won’t
imagine that can cause it, is an outdoor event where many families and friends
gather around, which is a barbecue. When there is a barbecue going on mostly everyone
focuses on the taste and smell, but not on the fumes that the barbecue generates. These fumes have a huge quantity of PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons), which causes lung cancer
from inhalation, mouse skin from dermal absorption, and dietary ingestion. Some
methods used for this research is by targeting the population that took place
in Guangzhou, China. Another one would be sampling strategy. Urine samples were
collected and analyzed for nine hydroxyl (0H)-PAHS (Lao, et al.2018). Other
samples were analyzed such as, food, air, and clothing for 16 PAHs. The
dominant exposure in this research was the dietary exposure with a large amount
of 0H-PAH excretion and PAH intake. Furthermore, the dermal intake of lower
molecular-weight PAHs was greater than inhalation intake from the occurrence of
atmospheric PAHs (Lao, et al. 2018). In the results the most important pathway
for intake of low molecular-weight was dermal absorption instead of inhalation.
Lao, J., Xie, S., Wu, C., Bao, L., Tao, S., & Zeng, E. Y.
(2018). Importance of Dermal Absorption of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Derived from Barbecue Fumes. Environmental Science & Technology, (15).
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