American wood products formaldehyde emission standards
At present, US environmentalists are strongly urging the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to set limits on the formaldehyde content of household wood products to protect the public from the hazards of formaldehyde gases released from wood products. This long-term exposure to toxic gases Carcinogenic have a potential link. Established in 1892, the Sierra Earth Club and other 20 organizations have submitted their applications to the EPA. We hope that the EPA will adopt the recently defined formaldehyde content standard at the California Air Resources Conference and hope to promote its application throughout the country. California has enacted regulations that severely limit the release of formaldehyde from wood products and final products sold and used in California, which will reduce 57% (700t) of formaldehyde per year by 2011 freed.
?The letter also pointed out: "HUD standards were adopted in 1984, has been nearly 25 years, the standard is not enough to protect human health." "Now, we already know that if more than formaldehyde exposure level, Formaldehyde will cause cancer.
????In February, the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that 14 million Gulf hurricane victims were housed in government-provided activity rooms that were tested to show that formaldehyde exposure at these levels was at a high level.
In a letter to EPA, the Sierra Club said that the United States has not yet issued a federal defense to protect the public from the risk of exposure to formaldehyde in furniture, except that the US housing and urban development ministry (HUD) Regulations, it is necessary to develop national standards.
