Can outgassing from desks and chairs really be detrimental to health?

February 23, 2010

Is this all just disultory scaremongering promulgated by the paranoid, or can the formaldehyde, toluene, etc. chemicals that are regularly outgassed from computer desks, for instance, actually enter the body in sufficient quantities to have neurotoxicity and cancer elevating risks?

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Can outgassing from desks and chairs really be detrimental to health?

December 24, 2009

Is this all just disultory scaremongering promulgated by the paranoid, or can the formaldehyde, toluene, etc. chemicals that are regularly outgassed from computer desks, for instance, actually enter the body in sufficient quantities to have neurotoxicity and cancer elevating risks?

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I need to buy a new office/computer chair, but I want to purchase one that won’t off gas chemicals. Help?

December 12, 2009

hese days, most office chairs are constructed of a veritable slew of carcinogenic and neurotoxic chemicals, that continue to off gas for years after purchase and slowly poison their users. Since having cancer doesn’t appeal to me, I’d like a chair that will not off gass these things. At local office supply and furniture stores, [...]

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I need to buy a new office/computer chair, but I want to purchase one that won’t outgass chemicals. Help?

November 20, 2009

These days, most office chairs are constructed of a veritable slew of carcinogenic and neurotoxic chemicals, that continue to outgass for years after purchase. Since having cancer doesn’t appeal to me, I’d like a chair that will not outgass these things. At local office supply and furniture stores, would I be able to find any [...]

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