Shenzhen interior decoration formaldehyde pollution situation is serious 16 households 6 exceeded the standard.

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year, formaldehyde is more than 2 times over the standard. From December this year, the Shenzhen Municipal Consumer Council to carry out "Shenzhen home decoration pollution special investigation" activities, free of charge for the city's 120 households air quality "medical examination", the first phase of home furnishings indoor air special survey test results exposed a lot of problems, 16 households have 6 households test TVOC (indoor organic gaseous substances), formaldehyde exceeded the standard. How polluted is the home decoration? Where is the source of the pollution? The Municipal Consumer Council will continue to organize experts to enter the home for testing, and further publish the results of the test. 5 households TVOC exceeded the standard for the investigation and understanding of the real situation of home decoration environmental pollution in Shenzhen, from December this year, the Shenzhen Municipal Consumer Council for the city to carry out free indoor air quality testing, the first phase of testing of 16 households, there are 5 TVOC and 1 formaldehyde exceeded the standard. Miss Liu purchased a new 87-square-metre house in Longgang District, which was completed on November 15 this year. She said the family did not feel unwell, that is, the smell of kitchen decoration is more obvious, but test results show that the kitchen TVOC in her home more than three times over the standard. At the expert seminar on the results of the special indoor air survey, the Municipal Consumer Council invited the Shenzhen Institute of Metrology and Quality Inspection, building scientific research institutions, consumer representatives, etc. to conduct the seminar. Expert Wu Haitao pointed out that Miss Liu's kitchen TVOC content exceeded the standard, including benzene, formaldehyde and other toxic substances low content, may be due to poor ventilation caused by indoor TVOC gas difficult to release volatile, should strengthen ventilation. In addition, some households use more wood furniture in their homes, and the painting of furniture may lead to an increase in TVOC content. Mr. Wen, who has lived in Xianglin Century Washington, Longgang District, for nearly a year, said that when he built his new home in January, he still felt a slight unpleasant, pungent smell in the newly renovated house, but did not feel unwell. Testing reports show that staying nearly a year not only TVOC exceeded the standard, formaldehyde also exceeded the standard more than 2 times. Experts pointed out that formaldehyde release speed is slow, decoration completion time does not mean that toxic gases will be completely volatile, pay attention to maintain a good ventilation environment. Reporters found that 6 households detected TVOC, formaldehyde exceeded the standard of households, most of the households have not smelled the unpleasant smell of decoration. In this regard, experts pointed out that can not rely on the sense of smell alone to judge whether the air after the renovation of the house is up to standard, consumers are advised to test through third-party authorities. In addition, the detection of TVOC exceeding the standard also need not panic, TVOC sources have a variety of decoration
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, food, cabinets and plastic products, etc. will volatilize TVOC gas, these gases have toxic and non-toxic two kinds of benzene, xylene these harmful gases will pose a threat to human health. Next, the Shenzhen Consumer Council will continue to enter the public's homes for indoor air quality testing, testing projects including formaldehyde, benzene, TVOC, through home improvement air quality testing, announced a number of substandard quality home improvement enterprises and products, strengthen social supervision of the home improvement market, for consumers to provide consumers with consumer home decoration consumption guidance.