Chongqing paint quality spot check announcement multi-brand 6% of products formaldehyde exceeded the standard.

January 5 news (reporter Wu Xinwei) market labeled "zero formaldehyde"
paint
not necessarily safe. Chongqing Quality Supervision Bureau yesterday issued the 2016 paint product quality supervision spot check announcement shows that the sampling failure rate of 6.0%.
this spot check involved 34 districts and counties, such as Banan, Beiji, spot checks of 230 enterprises 420 batches of products, of which 395 batches qualified, 25 batches not qualified, sampling failure rate of 6.0%. Among them, 3 batches of paint were detected free formaldehyde exceeding the standard, is a serious non-conforming products. "Yongji", "Lirun", "Shuangqiang" and other three brands of external walls
latex paint
were detected free formaldehyde exceeding the standard, was found to be a serious non-conforming product.
, the main reason for the coating products free formaldehyde exceeding the standard is that enterprises do not strictly control raw materials, as well as backward technology. Formaldehyde content in coatings is not greater than 5mg/kg can be called "zero formaldehyde", but "zero formaldehyde" paint may still contain formaldehyde. The volature of formaldehyde is a slow release process that accelerates as the temperature increases. As a result, formaldehyde is easier to "hide" in winter when paint is used. Consumers are advised to use paint decoration in winter, it is best to finish the summer before moving into a new home.