FORMALDEHYDE EMISSIONS AND EFFECTS ON HEALTH DURING ARRIVAL OF FURNITURE TO ULTIMATE CONSUMER

Abstract

People spend most of their time in closed areas such as home, office, school. For this reason, indoor environment pollution has great importance for human health. In this environment, the formaldehyde gas in the indoor furniture produced by the synthetic resin made from the panels is gradually released into the living spaces. The indoor concentration of formaldehyde gas in ppm is higher than the international standard, that is, the comfort limit value accepted by the western countries, which causes considerable damage to human health, especially to children. In this study; formaldehyde emission values of five different companies’ wood-based panel products determined by three different methods in Turkey and in 50 furniture manufacturing facilities, 50 furniture stores, 50 new apartments; formaldehyde gas analyzes have been performed. As a result; on average, furniture manufacturing 0.45 ppm, in furniture store 0.37 ppm, in new apartments 0.11 ppm formaldehyde gas release has been measured.

Keywords

• Formaldehyde,Furniture,Particleboard,MDF

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