Cooking on gas regularly fills kitchens with air pollution above recommended levels, the largest ever home monitoring study in Europe has found. The WHO daily limit value for nitrogen dioxide exposure was broken in most of the homes using gas hobs and/or gas ovens that were tested under normal living conditions by leading scientific researchers. NO2 levels were found to be almost twice as high in kitchens, living rooms and bedrooms in homes cooking on gas compared to those using electric appliances, on average. Breaches in 15.9% of homes using electric appliances were caused mainly by outside air pollution blowing in, the researchers say. Read the full press release here.
CLASP used a respected Dutch scientific institute to carry out this research, which brought opportunities but also challenges. The material needed quite a lot of massaging before it was mainstream consumable. In the end, the report did well, gaining around 250 articles, including the Daily Mail, El Confidential, Bloomberg, BFM TV and Corriere Della Sera.
