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Article describing ways home owners can improve ventilation in their kitchens.

Report on the performance of range hood exhaust fans.

Fact sheet that details the steps needed to perform a combustion appliance safety inspection to determine if fossil fuel-fired appliances are operating safely under a depressurized condition.

Report providing information on mechanical air-cleaning devices for ventilation when conventional methods are not warranted.

Source for information about Carbon Monoxide including health effects and measures to reduce exposure.

Report describing a field study to measure pollutant concentrations in 324 homes in California.

Report on whole-house and spot ventilation strategies for improved indoor air quality.

Article describing the impact of increasingly stringent ventilation standards on multifamily buildings, highlighting the inefficiencies and challenges of exhaust-only ventilation in tightly sealed enclosures, the complications of achieving balanced ventilation, and the unintended consequences of...

Article describing a field study that test ventilation performance in nine homes and found current ventilation was inadequate to remove PM2.5 and CO2 levels; however, a directly exhausting range hood can reduce peak PM2.5 concentrations by 75% or more.

Standard covering provisions for electrically operated single- and multiple-station carbon monoxide (CO) alarming devices used in various types of residential occupancies to protect against acute effects of exposure to CO. This version of the standard, originally published in 2001 and revised in...