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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 8.
Published in final edited form as: J Environ Monit. 2010 Oct 22;12(12):2290–2298. doi: 10.1039/c0em00057d

Table 1.

List of PAHs included in air quality and risk assessment calculations. Toxic Equivalency Factors or TEFs are listed for known carcinogens according to the International Agency for Research on Cancer14 and adapted from the California Environmental Protection Agency Office, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment15

Carcinogenic PAH
TEFs
Benz[a]anthracene
0.1
Chrysene
0.01
Benzo[b]fluoranthene
0.1
Benzo[k]fluoranthene
0.1
Benzo[a]pyrene
1
Indeno[1,2,3-c,d]pyrene
0.1
Dibenz[a,h]anthracene
1
Dibenzo[a,l]pyrene
10
Dibenzo[a,e]pyrene
1
Dibenzo[a,h]pyrene
10
Dibenzo[a,i]pyrene
10