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Cleaning Prodcuts and Their Hazardous Effects. ---------- Cleaning Products are no more a clean products, they are coming with many hazardous components.Building occupants, including Cleaning Staff, are affected to a wide variety of airborne chemicals when cleaning agents and air fresheners are used in buildings. Few of these chemicals are listed by the state of California as virulent air contaminants and a subset of these are listed by the US federal government as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). California's Proposition 65 list of species recognized as carcinogens or procreative toxicants also includes constituents of certain cleaning products and air fresheners. In addition, many cleaning agents and air fresheners consist chemicals that can react with other air contaminants to yield potentially harmful secondary products For example, terpenes can react rapidly with ozone in indoor air generating many secondary pollutants, including TACs such as formaldehyde. Furthermore, ozone�terpene reactions create the hydroxyl radical, which reacts quickly with organics, leading to the creation of other potentially toxic air pollutants. Indoor reactive chemistry involving the nitrate radical and cleaning-product constituents is also of concern, since it produces organic nitrates as well as some of the same oxidation products generated by ozone and hydroxyl radicals. Few studies have directly addressed the indoor concentrations of TACs that might result from direct use or secondary pollutant formation following the use of cleaning agents and air fresheners. The studies include , combination of direct observational evidence with the basic principles of indoor pollutant behavior and with information from relevant studies, to analyze and critically measure air pollutant exposures resulting from the use of cleaning products and air fresheners. Analysis is also is concentrated on compounds that are listed as HAPs, TACs or Proposition 65 carcinogens/reproductive toxicants and compounds that can readily react to generate secondary pollutants. The toxicity of many of these secondary pollutants has yet to be analyzed. The inhalation intake of airborne organic compounds from cleaning productsnatural cleaning products use is estimated to be of the order of 10 mg d−1 person−1 in California. There are several important papers present evidence of bad health effects from inhalation exposure associated with cleaning products. Exposure to primary and secondary pollutants depends on the complex interplay of many sets of factors and processes, including cleaning product composition, usage, building occupancy, emission dynamics, transport and mixing, building ventilation, sorptive interactions with building surfaces, and reactive chemistry. Current understanding is sufficient to describe the influence of these variables qualitatively in most cases and quantitatively in a few. Hence with the above scenario natural cleaning products no doubt are the best option to go for. ----------
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