Formaldehyde: Is It Really That Deadly? Or Just Another Tree Hugger Hoax???
From Several News Stories...
Several years ago, the state of California, through the California Air Resources Board (CARB), announced that it was moving toward new regulations dramatically limiting ...
...the emissions of formaldehyde by wood composites and engineered wood panels used in the manufacture of housing.
The companies making the formaldehyde-emitting resins shrieked.
The wood composites manufacturers freaked.
An advertising blitz downplaying the problem was immediately launched. But, in the end, CARB prevailed and in 2007 they passed the new legislation.
Phase One went into effect January 1st of this year and Phase Two which lowers allowable emission rates follows in 2011.
Because the California market is so huge and because they generally lead the way on health and environmental legislation,...
... manufacturers of the types of materials that are polluting the Katrina trailers have had to make big changes across the board (no pun intended.)
In other words, they don't just make a product for California because it's not practical.
They've changed ALL of their operations.
The resin companies have responded (despite all their complaining beforehand)...
... by reformulating their resins to contain scavengers that prevent formaldehyde emissions, another example of regulatory efforts forcing innovation that likely wouldn't have occurred otherwise.
On June 2nd, the EPA released a "draft human health assessment for formaldehyde that focuses on evaluating the potential toxicity of inhalation exposures to this chemical".
The EPA has concluded that formaldehyde is carcinogenic when inhaled by humans.
Public concern...
...about the substance grew dramatically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when many people living in FEMA trailers after the storm reported respiratory and other health problems from prolonged exposure to formaldehyde.
"There is sufficient evidence of a causal relationship between formaldehyde exposure and cancers of the upper respiratory tracts, ...
...with the strongest evidence for nasopharyngeal and sino-nasal cancers," the draft assessment made public on Wednesday concludes.
"There is also sufficient evidence of a causal association between formaldehyde exposure and lymphohematopoietic cancers, with the strongest evidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia, particularly myleloid leukemia.
Senator Klobuchar's bill, signed into law last week, closely emulated the CARB legislation, effectively making the California law a national one.
Formaldehyde: Is It Really That Deadly? Or Just Another Tree Hugger Hoax??
Several years ago, the state of California, through the California Air Resources Board (CARB), announced that it was moving toward new regulations dramatically limiting ...
...the emissions of formaldehyde by wood composites and engineered wood panels used in the manufacture of housing.
The companies making the formaldehyde-emitting resins shrieked.
The wood composites manufacturers freaked.
An advertising blitz downplaying the problem was immediately launched. But, in the end, CARB prevailed and in 2007 they passed the new legislation.
Phase One went into effect January 1st of this year and Phase Two which lowers allowable emission rates follows in 2011.
Because the California market is so huge and because they generally lead the way on health and environmental legislation,...
... manufacturers of the types of materials that are polluting the Katrina trailers have had to make big changes across the board (no pun intended.)
In other words, they don't just make a product for California because it's not practical.
They've changed ALL of their operations.
The resin companies have responded (despite all their complaining beforehand)...
... by reformulating their resins to contain scavengers that prevent formaldehyde emissions, another example of regulatory efforts forcing innovation that likely wouldn't have occurred otherwise.
On June 2nd, the EPA released a "draft human health assessment for formaldehyde that focuses on evaluating the potential toxicity of inhalation exposures to this chemical".
The EPA has concluded that formaldehyde is carcinogenic when inhaled by humans.
Public concern...
...about the substance grew dramatically in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when many people living in FEMA trailers after the storm reported respiratory and other health problems from prolonged exposure to formaldehyde.
"There is sufficient evidence of a causal relationship between formaldehyde exposure and cancers of the upper respiratory tracts, ...
...with the strongest evidence for nasopharyngeal and sino-nasal cancers," the draft assessment made public on Wednesday concludes.
"There is also sufficient evidence of a causal association between formaldehyde exposure and lymphohematopoietic cancers, with the strongest evidence of Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia, particularly myleloid leukemia.
Senator Klobuchar's bill, signed into law last week, closely emulated the CARB legislation, effectively making the California law a national one.
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