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ToxicTrailers.com is dedicated to providing information about formaldehyde poisoning, and advocating effective government regulations. The government spent more than $2 billion on FEMA trailers with hazardous levels of formaldehyde, and now has dumped more than 103,000 former FEMA trailers known to be toxic on the market. If you are living in a former FEMA trailer and want a free test for formaldehyde, e-mail nicholas.shapiro@anthro.ox.ac.uk.
The FEMA trailer tragedy exposed what is a widespread problem in RVs, mobile homes, modular buildings and even conventional buildings. If you are having burning eyes, congestion, sore throat, coughing, breathing difficulties, frequent sinus infections or rashes, and difficulties concentrating, you may have a formaldehyde problem. For questions or to share your story, write 4becky@cox.net.
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Parade uses formaldehyde as example of failure to control unsafe chemicals

One of largest news magazines in the country, Parade, had a story this past weekend, Why Are So Few Chemicals Tested?:
"Under the TSCA, chemicals are presumed safe unless proven otherwise. However, the burden of proof is high, and the process can be influenced by politics. For example, although three major studies have shown that formaldehyde, a common ingredient in building materials, is linked to blood and lymphatic cancers and other illnesses, efforts by the EPA to restrict its use have failed thus far—because, some activists charge, of political and industry pressures."