Advice
Reports
Statements
Air pollution: other related statements and reports

This section contains the final view of the Committee as advice, reports or statements. A link to any supporting papers is provided underneath each statement. It should be noted that these supporting papers were written by the Secretariat and do not themselves represent the view of the Committee.

Advice

• The health effects of air pollutants: Advice from COMEAP

Reports

• Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution: Effect on Mortality (Draft report for comment)
  
  
• Cardiovascular Disease and Air Pollution - A report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants and Appendices (February 2006)
• Report
• Appendix
• Report: Guidance on the Effects on Health of Indoor Air Pollutants
  • Supporting paper: Development of guidance on indoor air pollutants COMEAP/2001/15
  • Supporting paper: Indoor air quality guidelines - request for advice COMEAP/2001/10
• Executive summary of report: Do particulates from opencast coal mining impair children's respiratory health?
• Report : The quantification of the effects of air pollution on health in the United Kingdom
• Report : Non-biological particles and health
• Report : Asthma and outdoor air pollution
  
  
  

Statements

• Statement on Asthma and Exposure to Chlorine and Associated Reaction Products at Swimming Pools (2007)
• Statement on the December 2005 Buncefield fire
• Interim statement on the Quantification of the Effects of Air Pollutants on Health in the UK (January 2006)
  
• Statement on the Use of Substitute Fuels in Cement Kilns
  • Cover paper: Use of substitute fuels in cement kilns
  • Use of substitute fuels in cement kilns - a paper by the HPA for COMEAP
  • Annex 1 http://www.hpa.org.uk/hpa/news/articles/press_releases/2004/041013_cement_kilns.htm
    
    (Annexes 2-5 are available from Amin Anjum at the Environment Agency)
    
    
• Assessment of the Health Implications of Concentrations of Nitrogen Dioxide and Carbon Monoxide Indoors - Advice to HSE and DTI
  Further information on Oxides of Nitrogen and Carbon Monoxide:
  • Controlled studies of the effects of exposure to nitrogen dioxide in normal subjects
    Extract from Department of Health (1993). Advisory Group on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution Episodes. Third Report. Oxides of Nitrogen. London: HMSO
    
    
  • Controlled studies of the effects of exposure to nitrogen dioxide in normal and asthmatic/bronchitic subjects
    Extract from Department of Health (1993). Advisory Group on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution Episodes. Third Report. Oxides of Nitrogen. London: HMSO
  • Justification of an Air Quality Standard for Nitrogen Dioxide
    Extract from Department of the Environment (1996), Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards - Nitrogen Dioxide. London: The Stationery Office.
  • The Effects of Nitrogen Dioxide on Human Health
    Extract from Department of the Environment (1996), Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards - Nitrogen Dioxide. London: The Stationery Office.
    
    
  • Combustion products from Flueless gas appliances
  • Unflued gas fires: request for advice for HSE and DTI COMEAP/2001/2
    
  • Useful links
    • Two research reports measuring concentrations of combustion products released from flueless gas appliances published in HSE’s contract research series
    • Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards: Nitrogen Dioxide. Department of the Environment 1996
      
    • Expert Panel on Air Quality Standards: Carbon Monoxide. Department of the Environment 1994
    • HSE guidance on the Health Effects of Nitrogen Monoxide and advice on workplace control measures
      
      
• Statement on Asthma and Exposure to Chlorine and Associated Reaction Products at Swimming Pools (20030
• Statement on papers by Dr Andrea Venn and Dr Rob McConnell
  • Supporting papers
• Statement on London Underground tunnel dust
  • Supporting papers
• Short-term associations between ambient particles and admissions to hospital for cardiovascular disorders
  • Supporting papers
• Statement on long-term effects of particles on mortality April 2001
  • Supporting papers
• Good practice for investigating the health impact of emissions to air from local industry
  September 2000
• The applicability of time-series coefficients to areas affected by emissions of air pollutants from industrial sources
  September 2000
  • Supporting paper
    
• COMEAP comments on the DETR Air Pollution Information Service - Numerical index and EC alert thresholds
  September 2000
  • Supporting paper
• Effects on health of aldehydes in ambient air
  • Supporting papers
• Methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE)
  September 2000
  • Supporting paper - Health effects of exposure to methyl-tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in petrol
• Transport and health in London
  by Stephen Glaister, Dan Graham and Ed Hoskins, October 1999
• Open cast mining operations
• Air pollution In Brunei
• Update on the possible health effects of air pollutants In the Clitheroe area - November 1998
• The possible health effects of air pollutants in the Clitheroe area
• The health effects of indoor exposure to carbon monoxide in the UK
• Dust on the London Underground
• The acute effects of air pollution on the respiratory health of children In West Glamorgan
• Statement: Drax power station: loss of flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) capacity
• Banding of air quality
• Statement on the study by Poloniecki et al: Daily time-series for cardiovascular hospital admissions and previous day's air pollution in London, UK
• Diesel v. petrol engined light vehicles June 1999

Air Pollution - Other related statements and reports

The Committee published, in 1997, the DH Handbook on Air Pollution and Health. This book provides an introductory, non-technical account of the effects of air pollution on health aimed primarily at students.

The information provided is based on detailed the reports prepared during the past eight years by the Department of Health's Advisory Group on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution Episodes and the Committee on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollutants. It is hoped that this book will make available, more widely, the work of these groups and will provide a ready source of advice and reference on the effects of air pollution.

The Handbook on Air Pollution and Health is available from the Stationery Office price £19.95

The pages on air pollution in the DH website include:

• Ad-Hoc Group on the Economic Appraisal of the Health Effects of Air Pollutants
  Report: Economic appraisal of the health effects of air pollution
• Advisory Group on the Medical Aspects of Air Pollution Episodes
  • First Report: Ozone
  • Second Report: Sulphur dioxide, acid aerosols and particulates
  • Third Report: Oxides of nitrogen
  • Fourth Report: Exposure to combinations of pollutants
• Other aspects of air pollution
  • Revised public information system on air pollution
  • Air pollution and health information pack

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