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

[Nikhil Desai]

Good news for Delhi’s reputation. 

Pollution is contextual, not absolute. 

Nikhil
Skype: nikhildesai888

> On Mar 8, 2019, at 11:09 AM, Cookswell Jikos <cookswelljikos at gmail.com> wrote:
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> ''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.
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> “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.''
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> 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.''
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> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/17/cooking-sunday-roast-causes-indoor-pollution-worse-than-delhi
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