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Health Risk Assessment and Evaluation of Asbestos Release from Asbestos-cement Slate Roofing Buildings in Busan

부산시내 석면슬레이트지붕 건축물로부터의 석면 노출 및 건강위해성 평가

  • Jeong, Jae-Won (Busan Metropolitan City Institute of Health and Environment) ;
  • Cho, Sunja (Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University) ;
  • Park, Geun-Tae (Institute for research & industrial cooperation, Pusan National University) ;
  • Lee, Sang-Joon (Department of Microbiology, Pusan National University)
  • Received : 2013.02.06
  • Accepted : 2013.06.19
  • Published : 2013.12.31
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Abstract

This study was performed to evaluate the asbestos exposure levels and to calculate excess lifetime cancer risk (ELCR) for the risk assessment of the asbestos fibers released from asbestos-cement slate roofing (ASR) building. Total number of ASR buildings was into 21,267 in Busan, and 82.03 percent of the buildings was residential houses, and 43.61 percent of the buildings was constructed in 1970s. For this study, ten buildings were selected randomly among the ASR buildings. The range of airborne asbestos concentration in the selected ten ASR buildings was from 0.0016 to 0.0067 f/mL, and the concentration around no-admitted ASR buildings was higher than that around admitted buildings. The ELCR based on US EPA IRIS (integrated risk information system) model is within 3.5E-05 ~ 1.5E-04 levels, and the ELCR of no-admitted ASR buildings was higher than 1.0E-04 (one person per million) level that is considered a more aggressive approach to mitigate risk. These results indicate that the cancer risk from ASR buildings is higher than other buildings, and systematic public management is required for control of no-admitted ASR buildings within near future.

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