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Modern life is characterized by an increased time spent indoors, both in the work environment and at home. Industrial development led to a large abundance of chemicals to accommodate this lifestyle, such as flame retardants, plasticizers, surfactants, biocides, sealants. Most of them are detected abundantly in the indoor environments, especially in dust, which become a repository for them. Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are very ubiquitous chemicals in indoors, because of their variety of industrial and consumer applications. In recent years they have raised special public concers because of their long-term persistence, bioaccumulation in food chain and toxic properties. The aim of this review was to compile in detail the current data available to sources and levels of perfluorinated compunds in the indoor environments.
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