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EDITORIAL CLEAN AIR IN EUROPE
Clean air in Europe: beyond the horizon? Bert Brunekreef1,2, Nino Künzli3,4, Juha Pekkanen5,6, Isabella Annesi-Maesano7, Bertil Forsberg8, Torben Sigsgaard 9, Menno Keuken10, Francesco Forastiere11, Maeve Barry12, Xavier Querol13 and Roy M. Harrison14,15 Affiliations: 1Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 3Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland. 4University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 5Dept of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland. 6Dept of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 7EPAR Department, INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Institute Pierre Louis of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France. 8Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dept of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. 9Section of Environment, Occupation and Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 10Netherlands Organization for Applied Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 11Epidemiology Dept, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy. 12European Respiratory Society, European Affairs Dept, Brussels, Belgium. 13Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. 14National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 15Dept of Environmental Sciences/Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Correspondence: Bert Brunekreef, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
@ERSpublications The current EU limit values for PM2.5 and PM10 are far too high http://ow.ly/E6HUR When the European Union (EU) set its first Air Quality Limit Values for particulate matter in outdoor air ( particulate matter
EDITORIAL CLEAN AIR IN EUROPE
Clean air in Europe: beyond the horizon? Bert Brunekreef1,2, Nino Künzli3,4, Juha Pekkanen5,6, Isabella Annesi-Maesano7, Bertil Forsberg8, Torben Sigsgaard 9, Menno Keuken10, Francesco Forastiere11, Maeve Barry12, Xavier Querol13 and Roy M. Harrison14,15 Affiliations: 1Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 2Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 3Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland. 4University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 5Dept of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland. 6Dept of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 7EPAR Department, INSERM, UMR_S 1136, Institute Pierre Louis of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France. 8Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Dept of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umea University, Umea, Sweden. 9Section of Environment, Occupation and Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 10Netherlands Organization for Applied Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands. 11Epidemiology Dept, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy. 12European Respiratory Society, European Affairs Dept, Brussels, Belgium. 13Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain. 14National Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK. 15Dept of Environmental Sciences/Center of Excellence in Environmental Studies, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Correspondence: Bert Brunekreef, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]
@ERSpublications The current EU limit values for PM2.5 and PM10 are far too high http://ow.ly/E6HUR When the European Union (EU) set its first Air Quality Limit Values for particulate matter in outdoor air ( particulate matter
