Fume with a view: consumer products and your indoor air quality

After more than 400 episodes, we’re taking a look back at some of the gems in our archives.

In this episode, civil and environmental engineer Professor Anne Steinemann outlines the causes and consequences of poor indoor air quality, and in particular the potentially hazardous fumes generated by home cleaning and personal care products.

“The types of pollutants may be different but the underlying theme is the same, it is that people are becoming sick from exposure to pollutants that are common indoors. And the irony is that most of our exposure to hazardous pollutants occurs precisely in those environments that we consider safe, our homes, in our offices, our indoor air environments. That’s what my research is investigating, is what are the sources of these pollutants and what can we do about it?” – Professor Steinermann

Producer: Eric Van Bemmel Audio engineer: Gavin Nebauer Recorded: 23 April 2015 Banner image: Pixabay

This episode was first published on Up Close on 8 May 2015

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