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. 2022 Jun 6;23(11):6348. doi: 10.3390/ijms23116348

Table 1.

B[a]P levels in outdoor air.

Location Concentration [ng/m3] Reference
The European Union 7% of EU citizens live in areas with a tolerable risk level of 0.12 ng/m3 [12]
France 1 ng to 2.49 ng/m3 [13]
Thailand 0.052 and 0.095 ng/m3 in PM 2.5 fraction [14]
Iberian Peninsula exceeded target value of 1 ng/m3 [15]
Italy—Genoa 2 ng/m3 (along heavy traffic streets) [16]
14 ng/m3 (300 m from a coke oven)
Poland—Cracow 4–10 ng/m3, [17]
Tarnow 4–6 ng/m3
Nowy Sacz 10–11 ng/m3
China—Linzhou 5.1–20.2 ng/m3 [18]
Saudi Arabia—Makkah 0.082 ± 0.032 ng/m3 (occupationally exposed workers) [10]
0.044 ± 0.006 ng/m3 (unexposed group)