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Cooking can make indoors as polluted as London streets

Here's my Flow reading - definitely peaks when cooking dinner

15-May-2019

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Frying food and burning wood may trap high levels of air pollution inside homes.

24-hour tests took place in houses in London, Pontypridd, Liverpool and Lancaster.

In Lancaster, number of particles inside was seven times the outdoor average.

Peak indoor pollution resulted from frying sausages and steaks.

Global Action Plan (GAP) is organising Clean Air Day on 20 June.

Advice: open a window when cooking at home.

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Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

Charity dedicated to ensure best possible heatlh care for children.

Royal College of Physicians (RCP)

Professional body with goal to improve the quality of patient care.

Stephen Holgate

Medical Research Council Clinical Professor of Immunopharmacology at the University of Southampton.

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Respiratory Disease
Cooking can make indoors as polluted as London streets