CLM-NEWCAR-001 · VERIFIED
In new vehicles parked in sunshine, interior materials released higher concentrations and more kinds of volatile organic compounds than in a test chamber, including alkanes, alcohols, ketones, benzenes, alkenes, aldehydes, esters and naphthalene, and the levels fell to chamber levels after a period of driving.
New vehicles of three brands; it measures emissions, not odour, and levels varied with model, speed, ventilation and temperature.
The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc), check run 36955913407.
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Ruihua Guo, Xiaofeng Zhu, Zuogang Zhu, Jianhai Sun, Yongzhen Li, Wencheng Hu & Shichuan Tang
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI 10.3390/ijerph19127048Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:volatile-emissions-inside-new-vehicles · Graph record (JSON)
Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since Strategy Phase 349.