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A Review on Air Pollution Toxicology and its Health Risks

Naveen Kumar Singh

Abstract


In India, air pollution has increased rapidly due to population growth, rapid industrialization, increase in the numbers of vehicles, excess use of fuels, bad transportation and traffic control systems, ineffective environmental regulations. Major pollutants like Sulfur Dioxide, Nitrogen Dioxide and Particulate Matter are contributing major roles to environmental pollution. Purpose of this paper is to review the literature relating to the analysis of ambient air quality of India. It also assesses the health impacts due to increase in the concentration of air pollutants in Indian cities. We provide a selective view of this science from the perspective of the evolution of the field from its early days in the appreciation of the hazards of air pollution to the current state of the science. As such, we first provide a background perspective that is followed by a focused review of our current knowledge based on what are considered the two majors “criteria” pollutants, particulate matter (PM) and ozone (O3), with a limited review of two selected, notable hazardous air pollutants (HAPs).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37628/jepd.v3i1.325

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