ISO 16000-1 Indoor Air — Part 1: Standard Test for General Aspects of Sampling Strategy

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of ISO 16000-1 testing. ISO 16000-1 aims to assist with indoor pollution monitoring planning.

Before designing a sampling strategy for indoor air monitoring, it is necessary to clarify for what purposes, when, where, how often and for what duration monitoring will be carried out. The answers to these questions depend, in particular, on some special characteristics of the indoor environments, the purpose of the measurement, and finally the medium to be measured. ISO 16000-1 addresses the importance of these factors and offers recommendations on how to develop an appropriate sampling strategy.

ISO 16000-1 applies to indoor environments such as living rooms, bedrooms, do-it-yourself rooms, break rooms and residences with pantries, kitchens and bathrooms.

The ISO 16000 series deals with indoor air measurements. This part of ISO 16000 is designed to assist in planning indoor air pollution measurements. Supplementary sections of ISO 16000 describe the sampling strategy, including the requirements to be met for certain substances or groups of substances, such as the dependence of indoor air pollution concentrations on atmospheric humidity or temperature or other influences. Actual procedures for indoor air measurements for individual substances are also presented in other parts of ISO 16000.

Attention should be paid to the special role of the human sense of smell in identifying substances or classes of substances in indoor air. Here, the memory of the smell and the experience of the specialist (chemist, perfumer) are more important than the sensitivity of the sense of smell. Sensory information can greatly simplify the identification of air pollutants and ultimately influence the sampling strategy. However, sensory adaptation affects sensory information, especially in the case of persistent indoor pollutants.

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