[Stoves] ''Cooking Sunday roast causes indoor pollution ‘worse than Delhi’''

[Cookswell Jikos]

''Fine soot and tiny organic particles from gas flames, vegetables, oils
and fat combined to send harmful PM2.5 particulates in the house to levels
13 times higher than those measured in the air in central London. Peak
indoor pollution lasted for about an hour.

“We were all surprised at the overall levels of particulate matter in the
house,” said Marina Vance, who led the research at the University of
Colorado in Boulder. She advised people to open windows and use extractor
hoods if possible to ventilate the home while cooking.''


And even worse it would seem... ''In one study, researchers looked for
chemical contaminants in the blood and urine of children in 190 families.
Some came from homes that had sofas containing flame retardants, and had
six times the levels of the chemicals in their blood than other children.
When children lived in homes with vinyl flooring, levels of
hormone-disrupting phthalates in their urine were 15 times higher than
those found in other children.''

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/17/cooking-sunday-roast-causes-indoor-pollution-worse-than-delhi
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