Green Options » mobile homes http://greenoptions.com/tag/mobile-homes Posts tagged 'mobile homes' Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:59:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Formaldehyde and Indoor Air Quality http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/02/14/formaldehyde-and-indoor-air-quality/ http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/02/14/formaldehyde-and-indoor-air-quality/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:59:11 +0000 Philip Proefrock http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/02/14/formaldehyde-and-indoor-air-quality/ FEMA TrailerToday’s news included the story that testing on FEMA-supplied temporary housing trailers in Mississippi and Louisiana has found extremely high levels of formaldehyde in the air, despite earlier reports issued by FEMA indicating that there was no problem.

Tests by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on more than 500 trailers in Louisiana and Mississippi showed formaldehyde levels that were five times higher than levels in a normal house. The levels in some trailers were nearly 40 times what is normal.

The CDC is saying that people living in these trailers “should move out quickly — especially children, the elderly and anyone with asthma or another chronic condition.”

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