Skabt af: Arbejds- og MIljømedicinsk Afdeling, Bispebjerg og Frederiksberg Hospital, Sandra Søgaard Tøttenborg.

Polychlorinated compounds (PCBs) are biopersistant industrial toxicants. It has been discovered that billions of citizens worldwide are high-level exposed to semi-volatile PCBs evaporating from building materials. While numerous studies address health risk in relation to consumption of PCB contaminated food, the evidence on risk related to environmental airborne exposure to PCB is almost non-existent. The latter primarily involve non-dioxin like PCBs with unknown health effects in humans. The present project addresses health effects of PCBs in the indoor environment. The overall objective is to unravel whether inhalation of semi volatile PCB residues from building materials at the residence is associated with risk to human reproduction in terms of male reproductive function in young adulthood.