Lumber Liquidators Faces U.S. Safety Inquiry

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Source: New york Times

By RACHEL ABRAMS
MARCH 25, 2015

The Consumer Product Safety Commission formally announced on Wednesday that it was investigating whether Lumber Liquidators, one of the nation’s largest discount flooring retailers, sold products with dangerous levels of formaldehyde.

Elliot F. Kaye, the commission’s chairman, said in a call with reporters on Wednesday that the company had been cooperating with the agency’s inquiry.

The agency began looking into the matter sometime after the CBS News program “60 Minutes” broadcast a report that accused Lumber Liquidators of selling laminate flooring in California that violated the state’s regulations on safety levels for formaldehyde products. The company has repeatedly insisted that its products are safe and has disputed the news program’s testing methods.

There are no national standards on formaldehyde emissions. The federal Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules to limit them, but the regulations have not been put into effect.
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Aaron M. Kessler contributed reporting.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/business/lumber-liquidators-faces-us-safety-inquiry.html

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Previously at DU:

Oops! Lumber Liquidators Chinese-Made Laminate Flooring Has Toxic Formaldehyde Levels

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1. formaldehyde and Koch Brothers

Georgia Pacific which is owned by the KB is a top producer of formaldehyde. They have been successful in stopping a determination of safety levels and just recently lost an effort to keep it off the list of carcinogens.