Table 1 presents the amounts of PAH emitted from the charcoal grilling, with and without meat.
The PAH levels shown in the table are approximately 1000 times higher than what can be determined in an ambient air sample of the same volume (7.5 m 3) from a heavily trafficked city street (Menzie et al., 1992; L6froth, 1990).
Individual PAH concentrations vary from several tens of/~g kg-1 meat for some 3- and 4-ringed PAH, to sub #g kg- ~ meat levels for the 5- and 6-ringed PAH. The levels from the grilled meat samples are slightly higher than those from the pure
charcoal samples; the differences are however not statistically significant.