Air Analysis for Residential Toxins

Especially in older buildings where wood preservatives, PCB-containing materials or harmful parquet adhesives were once used, volatile organic compounds are often still found.

✓ With our Indoor Air Analysis for Pollutants, you can test whether such contaminants are present in the air or in specific materials.

How the Indoor Air Test for Pollutants works

• Order the indoor air test conveniently in our shop. You will receive a test kit with all the necessary materials. No prior knowledge or experience is required.
• Take the sample yourself with the utensils provided, whenever and wherever you wish. Send it directly to the laboratory using the included return box.
• The sample is analysed in the laboratory, and after about 2–3 weeks you will receive a detailed report. It shows which pollutants were detected and at what concentration.

These parameters are analysed:

Approx. 50 volatile organic compounds:

1,2,3-Trichlorobenzene, 1,3,5-Trichlorobenzene, 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene, Aldrin, Dieldrin, Endrin, Heptachlor, Heptachlorepoxide, Benzo(a)pyrene, Benzo(b)fluoranthene, Benzo(k)fluoranthene, Benzo(ghi)perylene, Fluoranthene, Indeno(1,2,3-c,d)pyrene, Hexachlorobenzene, Pentachlorobenzene, Pentachloronitrobenzene, Methoxychlor, Tris(2-chloroethyl)phosphate, PCB 28, PCB 52, PCB 101, PCB 138, PCB 153, PCB 180, 1,2,3,4-Tetrachlorobenzene, 1,2,3,5-Tetrachlorobenzene, 1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene, α-Hexachlorocyclohexane, β-Hexachlorocyclohexane, γ-Hexachlorocyclohexane (lindane), δ-Hexachlorocyclohexane, ε-Hexachlorohexane, trans-Permethrin, cis-Permethrin, 4,4'-DDT, 2,4'-DDT, 4,4'-DDE, 2,4'-DDE, 4,4'-DDD, 2,4'-DDD, α-Endosulfan, β-Endosulfan

• Lindane: widely used insecticide, applied until the mid-1980s also as a wood preservative indoors; suspected of being carcinogenic.
• Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs): used as plasticizers and flame retardants in old plastics; harmful to the nervous and immune system.
• DDT: insecticide used until the 1970s; can still enter households via products from developing countries.
• Benzo(a)pyrene: reference substance of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) – can enter indoor air through old parquet adhesives or incomplete combustion (e.g. cigarette smoke); main cause of lung cancer related to tobacco smoke.

Do you have questions about your results? – Our service team will be happy to assist you by email!

Please note: The analyses are intended for self-monitoring. Legal or official use of the results cannot be guaranteed, as the sampling is carried out by the customer. Legally valid results require sampling by a trained, independent specialist.