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

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Drury and Larson bought more than 150 boxes of laminate flooring at stores around California and sent them to three certified labs for a series of tests. The results? While laminate flooring from Home Depot and Lowes had acceptable levels of formaldehyde, as did Lumber Liquidators American-made laminates, every single sample of Chinese-made laminate flooring from Lumber Liquidators failed to meet California formaldehyde emissions standards. Many by a large margin.

Richard Drury: The average level in Lumber Liquidators products that we found was over six to seven times above the state standard for formaldehyde. And we found some that were close to 20 times above the level that's allowed to be sold.

Anderson Cooper: That sounds like a huge amount.

Denny Larson: It's a huge amount

Richard Drury: It's a startling amount. It was so high, in fact, that one of our test labs thought their machine was broken.

Anderson Cooper: The lab itself thought...

Denny Larson: It hit the upper limit on the radar gun. And they thought it was broken.

Dr. Philip Landrigan: It's not a safe level, it's a level that the US EPA calls polluted indoor conditions.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lumber-liquidators-linked-to-health-and-safety-violations/

[Romeo.lima333]

1. as is with all chinese made crap

[Bill USA]

2. jesus christ. With all the intellectual property they've stolen from us, you'd think they could

turn out one product that isn't toxic, or doesn't fall apart in 1/7th its normal expected useful life.

all Chinese products should be labelled as toxic.