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Monday, September 10.1979
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University Daily Kansan
CHRIS TODD/Kansan staff
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Mark Zahn, Leahner senior, enjoyed a friend's painting so much that his friend allowed Zahn to take the painting home for
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Insulation tested for side effects
By DOUG WAHL Staff Reporter
A home insulation that has been used in Kansas and nationwide for about 10 years has been tested for possible adverse side effects. The results are available at Department of Health and Environment.
Irwin said he was taking samples of the air in homes of persons who suspected the level of urea formaldehyde in their homes might be unsafe.
There have been seven inquiries in Kansas and nationwide for about 10 years the past seven or eight months on the foam insulation, area formaldehyde, John Irwin, chief of the occupational health department of Health and Environment, said Friday.
Irwin's office is trying to determine if urea formaldehyde releases irritating fumes that some consumers say cause headaches and respiratory problems.
Bill Egnor, president of the National association of Urea Formaldehyde Industries, said that complaints about the foam were received from about one-twentieth of 1 million customers.
"If there have been any problems, it has been through misapplication of the foam," he said.
HE BLAMED installation methods as the problem behind the complaints.
Egior said the foam could be misapplied if it were not allowed to air for 30 days after it had been put in a room, or if it was mixed improperly.
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"As of right now, we don't have any information on exposure to formaldehyde," Powers said.
suspected their homes might be affected by flooding. In 1978 and began to question its effects last winter when his wife had headaches and watery eyes.
"We weren't too sure," said Hamilton's wife, Della, "but we thought we had better be safe than sorry.
"There really won't a smell. It just seemed like it was real stuff," she said. "I wouldn't blame the foam; I would just like to know it wasn't that."
ACCORDING TO Leslie Rawlings, chief attorney for the Attorney General's Consumer Division in Topeka, results of the study are not complete.
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She said the National Academy of Sciences in Washington D.C. was conducting experiments that should be finished this month or in October. She said the experiments should provide standards for safe use of formaldehyde in a home or baiting.
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"I'm not saying we don't have a problem," Rawls said. "We are still testing. There is no evidence yet to get a hold of them, the facts are not in yet on area formalizable."
Heiwers, spokesman for the Consumer Products Safety Commission in Washington, D.C., and her office had the responsibility of concerning area formaldehyde in 10 vacues.
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Egor said there were about eight manufacturers of urea formaldehyde and each manufacturer licensed persons instructed in the application of the insulation.
RAWLINGS SAID persons who wanted formaal formaldied installed in their homes should check the certification of the person who made the purchase and the names of at least three customers.
Egnor said urea formaldehyde had received negative publicity.
"Where I have seen most of the complaints is where we have had the most adverse publicity, like in the New England area." he said.
EGNOR, SAID people purchasing urea formaldehyde insulation should be careful about who they hired to install the foam.
"Check to make sure the applicator is certified by one of the manufacturers of urea formaldehyde and has had proper training," he said.
According to Egor, formaldehyde also is used in products such as particle board, carpets, drapes, wash-and-wear-clothing and some shampoos.
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