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This is what it all comes down to; do we really want to believe the information we recieve is true and conclusive when it is coming from someone with a vested interest in the products they are testing?
How can we rely on a report when it is based on money and not the well being of the people.....this is not just an issue for carpet but also food and drugs and cleaners and all types of consumer products.
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"My sense is that EPA is avoiding the issue because they don't want
to participate in a financial massacre of industry," said Hirzy,
speaking as president of EPA Union Local 2050. "And there is a
certain amount of investment in reputation by peopel in EPA who early
on said carpet wasn't a problem. Industry won't publicly admit
there's a problem because of the liability. In the meantime, how
many lives have been and will be devastated?"
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continued::"First of all, there are no such
recognized standards of safety. CRI has sets its own arbitrary
standards. Secondly, CRI's testing program is completely inadequate
because it measure only a small percentage of the chemicals emitted
from carpets. Finally, a manufacturer can get a green tag for an
entire product line simply by having one small piece of carpet tested
once a year."
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"The carpet industry has mounted a massively deceptive merchandising
campaign that intentionally misleads the public by implying that all
carpets with the green tag have met safety standards," say New York
Attorney General Robert Abrams.
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Partial Listing of Hazardous Chemicals Found in Carpet using ASTM E981: Acetone, Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, Benzene, Caprolactam, Diethylene glycol, p-Dichlorobenzene, Formaldehyde, Hexane, Styrene, Toluene, Vinylcyclohexene, Xylenes....these are just some of what is in there and if you research them on an individual basis they are terrible but then you have to figure we are ingesting them in a mixture and there is not any testing on the effects of these mixtures.
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"There is no formaldehyde in carpet, it has not been
used in the manufacture of carpet in over ten years." Michael
Kronick, executive director of the Canadian Carpet Institute in
Ottawa, has gone on record stating that formaldehyde, benzene, and
toluene are not used in the manufacture of carpet. (22)
Yet, all three of these chemicals are emitted from carpet according
to a number of emissions tests run on new carpet samples fresh from
the mill
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The stats you list below are on lots of Alt Med sites. Bill Hirzy was the president of Union Local 2050 in the 90's the comments were from testimony to Senate Government Operations Committe on October 1, 1992. NYS Attorney General, Robert Abrams filed his petition & claims against carpet on April 11, 1991. The ASTM E981 test was developed in the 1960's for testing nerve gas and was used to test carpet in the 1990's. It has long since been replace by the ASTM D7339 test protocol among others.
With advancements in knowledge & science over the decades industries have matured. Today carpet manufacturers must submit to routine independent testing & many stringent levels of environmental certification. Eg; most manufacturers voluntarily submit for product certification by California's High Performance Schools (CHPS) program which can only be received from laboratories accredited for CHPS product certification. Very strict California State standards & regular re-certification is required.
I am just pointing out the misleading information consumers get about how great carpet is. In reality there are many people becoming ill due to the chemicals in carpets new and old not the allergens.
Yes cleaning is essential but eliminating as many sources of toxicity is number one. I have met countless people who have been poisoned by carpets. There are many things that make us sick but sleeping in a carpeted room for 8 hrs then spending the rest of the day surrounded too.
I'm not sure what chemicals you deem are so unique to carpets as to make them worse than other building materials. As you may know the primary focus of IAQ and toxicity typically revolves around Volitile Organic Compounds (VOC) emissions. In reality carpet is one of the lowest VOC emmitters, significantly less than VCT, wood & ceramic floor adhesives (even low VOC types) and paint. In fact plasticizers, glues, urethanes and finishes on vinyl and wood floors are typically much harsher toxins.