On 27 April, AFSSET, the French state agency dealing with environment and health at work, signed a partnership convention with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to collaborate on indoor air quality.

This partnership will last for 2 years and is made under the 2008-2013 WHO/France framework agreement. The partnership aims at defining cooperation modalities between France and WHO and defining WHO indoor air quality reference values.

AFSSET has already worked for 4 years on indoor air quality reference values based on health criteria. It led to the identification of a list of substances for which the definition of indoor air quality reference values is a priority. For instance, there are already recommendations concerning reference values for formaldehyde and carbon monoxide.

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