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Buying
environmentally preferable cleaning products can require changes
in how cleaners are purchased and used, but such changes can
pay multiple dividends, in both environmental impact and improved
worker health and safety and morale.
Please find hereafter
some information regarding the health effects of those chemicals,
the regulations in place in the US and Europe and information
about Indoor Air Pollution and VOC's.
| What do Indoor Air Pollution
and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) mean? How do they affect
our health? |
• Presentation
Orbeco Inc. - Click here
( Powerpoint)
• "Indoor Air Pollution: An Introduction
for Health Professionals" co-sponsored by The
American Lung Association (ALA), The Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), The Consumer Product Safety
Commission (CPSC), and The American Medical Association
(AMA) – 33 pages: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/pubs/images/indoor_air_pollution.pdf
• "Cleaning For Health: Products and Practices
for a Safer Indoor Environment" by Alicia Culver,
Marian Feinberg, David Klebenov, Judy Muskinow, Lara
Sutherland (86 pages) – August 2002: http://www.informinc.org/cleanforhealth.php
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What are the
regulations in place in the US regarding the limit of
VOCs? |
| What
are the European Regulations? |
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