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IGERT Trainee Advances Knowledge of Human Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in Moth Repellents and Deodorizers
UT-Austin IGERT Trainee Priscilla Guerrero designed and constructed an experimental system to study human exposure to toxic chemicals used in moth repellents
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Trainee Priscilla Guerrero of the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program in Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering at the University of Texas is completing a novel study of human exposure to toxic chemicals used in moth repellents. She is focusing on the extent to which clothing becomes contaminated by p-dichlorobenzene and naphthalene and how contaminated clothing can lead to elevated inhalation and dermal exposures when worn. Trainee Guerrero designed and constructed an experimental system (image) that includes a 300-L electro-polished stainless steel chamber within which up to 36 clothing fabric specimens can be suspended and exposed to p-DCB and naphthalene at constant gas-phase concentrations of each chemical using a delivery system developed for this study.
Credits: Richard Corsi