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To: KLP who wrote (238879)	2/15/2008 10:42:44 PM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794396

KLP Do have a formaldehyde story. About 15 years ago we moved into a house that seemed perfect. A beautiful place in the walkout basement for a music room for moi and small gatherings. The house had been tested for radon for everything before we moved in-----seemed perfect. When I would go to the music room I would get dizzy, nauseous and couldn't breath. So to allergists-----found I was allergic to formaldehyde. Took awhile to put 2 and 2 together. There was a fake wood wall that separated the music area from a storage area. As time went on I finallyl decided to examine the artifical wood panel-------installed when the house was built in the 1980's. It had Formaldehyde written on back side of paneling. Talked to doctor and zoning people-------found that formaldehde was banned in new construction but after my house was built. Short story------had the wall ripped out and replaced and the symptoms disappeared-------but it took almost a year to figure out the problem. There is no doubt that formaldehyde is toxic-------particularly to people with sensitive immune sytems. It is unfortunate that the Fema trailers are built containing formaldehyde. I can empathize with the people who are having constant formaldehyde exposure symptoms------truly debilitating. I don't have anything to add to the political side of this----what I would say is go back to logging and planting trees. That's what my ancestors did and it worked just fine. It's amazing how fast trees grow. mj