Chemical

• The EPA in a 2000 report revisits the 1992 wood stoves (phase II) study.

• Wood smoke (woodsmoke) poses threat to aquatic life of the Great Lakes, USA
• Determination of Atmospheric Pollutant Emission Factors at a Small Industrial Wood-Burning Furnace
• Comparisons of Emmissions from different sources of PM-2.5 or smaller.
• Constituents of Wood Smoke from an EPA Study.
• Persistent Organic Pollutants in Germany (as a pdf)
• Biomass Burning Luke Curtis, MS, CIH- from Human Ecologist- Fall Issue 2002
• Smoke from the burning of the straw residues from Kentucky grass seed fields contains at least two different types of organic compounds, i.e. the phenolic compounds and the PAHs. The phenols appear to be present in much higher concentrations than the PAHs.

Medical

• Tiny Air Pollutants Linked to Heart Attacks
• Effects of Subchronic Exposure to Wood Smoke on the Respiratory Tract of Rats
• Woodsmoke Linked to mouthcancer.htm Reuters report, Jan. 21, 1999.
• Effects of Concentrated Ambient Particles on the Cardiac and Pulmonary Systems of Dogs.
• Association between Air Pollution and Lung Function Growth in Southern California Children (as a pdf file)

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