Toxic gas pervasive in FEMA units, tests show

Toxic gas pervasive in FEMA units, tests show

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More than 2 years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita battered the Gulf, private tests of FEMA travel trailers and mobile homes provided to storm victims indicate that high levels of formaldehyde gas in the units is much more widespread than the government has acknowledged.

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Wow -- *they* are not just putting poison in your soda! FEMA "has been advised" not to test, that's a shocker, people's floors are caving in, law suits are "years away" and could be in the billions of dollars. People are "waking up w/ sore throats" and one person "woke up w/ blue lips." FEMA is still distributing the trailers and I think this paragraph is also needed:

The previously undisclosed test results from nearly 600 units, reviewed by msnbc.com, found that 95% of the temporary housing units provided by FEMA measured at least twice the CDC’s maximum recommended level for long-term exposure to the toxic gas. In some extreme cases, the levels were 70 times the long-term standard.

Lastly, on my signature's thread, there's been heated debate about ingesting actual formaldehyde, this MSNBC article drops this little stat in the FEMA news:

When they had the mobile home tested for formaldehyde in July, more than a year and a half after they moved in, the reading came back at 0.186 parts per million (ppm) or more than 23 times the long-term maximum exposure level of 0.008 recommended by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a unit of the federal Centers for Disease Control.

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[edit on 12-11-2007 by anhinga]

Well the dirty little secret is that ALL mobile homes contain similar levels of formaldehyde, because they're all basically built with the same low grade building materials. Melamine (the substance the Chinese cut the wheat by-products with and killed thousands of pets), carpets with zero percent natural fibers, vinyl door and window frames, and particle board made with toxic glues. They are a death trap and break every health, fire and structural standard in most of the industrialized world.

If the truth came out there would be riots across the country.

The truth is sort of out there... with internet 'usage' at over a billion people - there should be riots! www.abovetopsecret.com...

I guess if more Americans were in a FEMA situation, that's when the riots could start, but until then, I think you're right Probe, people are content w/ football and shopping in a 70% consumer-spending driven economy.