Tag: Ewa Trzetrzelewska-Lalik

Benzene in General Environment

Andrzej Starek

Benzene is a primary industrial chemical and a ubiquitous environmental pollutant. Benzene occurs naturally as a component of petroleum and natural gas and also as a gas emissions from volcanoes and forest fires. There are number of petroleum products that contain benzene and are used in several industrial and household applications. For example, benzene is present in gasoline. Its the maximum content in gasoline was limited in 1998 to 1% v/v.

The general population is commonly exposed to benzene via respiratory tract. The main sources are traffic exhausts and cigarette smoke. Benzene exposures to the general population have been reduced by lowering its contents in gasoline and prohibiting smoking in public places. To improve air quality in the European Union set a limit value of 5 µg/m3 for benzene in 2008. The knowledge on the metabolism of benzene is basis for investigation of biomarkers of exposure to benzene.

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Millet and buckwheat – nutritional and health value

Ewa Trzetrzelewska-Lalik, Tadeusz Tuszyński, Aneta Radłowska-Działo

There has been an increase in consumer interest in a healthy, balanced diet. Foods of vegetable origin contain many valuable ingredients that in addition to the supply of nutrients and energy can have a healthy effect on the human body, in recent years. Currently, we can observe a trend restoring interest in local products such as millet and buckwheat which are naturally rich in ingredients with a beneficial effect on health. They contain vitamins, minerals, bioactive peptides, enzymes, compounds or other active substances that may have therapeutic effects in specific diseases or disease entities.

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