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01-05-2018 | Editorial
Driving ban for diesel-powered vehicles in major cities: an appropriate penalty for exceeding the limit value for nitrogen dioxide?
Author:
Matthias Möhner
Published in:
International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health
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Issue 4/2018
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Excerpt
To protect the general population from adverse health effects, Germany set a limit value of 40 μg/m³ for the annual mean exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO
2) based on WHO’s air-quality guidelines and in accordance with the European directives (DE
2010; EC
2008; WHO
2006). …