Is the formaldehyde exceeding the standard 3 times the furniture is "the real fierce"?

Ms. Gao, a citizen of Changchun, recently reported to the newspaper that at the end of May this year, when she was renovating the new house, she found that the indoor formaldehyde exceeded the standard by more than three times. It was suspected that the furniture was “true murder” through friend identification, and a certain brand furniture manufacturer was found to negotiate. The person in charge of the furniture manufacturer took out a test report that was “expired” for nearly one year and proved innocent.

The reporter recently visited a number of furniture stores in Changchun and found that similar test reports are ineffective.

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New home decoration formaldehyde exceeds 3 times

Ms. Gao introduced that in February of this year, her new house began to be renovated and installed furniture. It was nearly 2 months after the completion of the work. Now there is still taste, and there are symptoms such as headache, eye pain and dizziness.

At the end of May, Ms. Gao commissioned a friend who did environmental testing to test and found that the formaldehyde content in the living room bedroom was at least 3 times higher than the maximum allowed by the national standard. The content of benzene, toluene and xylene exceeded 1 to 5 times.

What caused the air quality to fail? Ms. Gao targeted the solid wood pellet furniture in the house. She recalled that when she bought the furniture, the brand sales staff provided her with a test report issued in March 2015.

So Ms. Gao found the furniture sales staff, but the other party thought that the formaldehyde exceeded the product quality, but did not provide a test report. Under her strong request, the merchants provided two quality inspection reports after March 2016.

"The furniture that this report tests is not the batch I bought. How can I prove that the product is qualified?" Ms. Gao asked the merchant to eliminate formaldehyde in the house.

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Other furniture may be a source of pollution

In response to Ms. Gao’s question, Song’s manager of the brand furniture store told the New Culture reporter that Ms. Gao’s judgment has no scientific basis. The test results can only prove that the air quality is unqualified, but the latex paint, cabinets and wooden furniture may be the source of pollution during the decoration process.

Manager Song explained that the furniture she used was made of particleboard. Although the glue was used during the pressing process, the plates used by the company were all qualified by the supplier. Moreover, in the process of assembling furniture, there is no need to process or brush oil, so no harmful substances such as benzene and toluene are generated. On the contrary, latex paint, furniture paint and the like are very easy to release benzene.

Later, Manager Song provided two reports to the New Culture Journalist, one for particleboard testing of indoor air quality and the other for particleboard quality testing, which showed “qualified”. However, the reporter noted that the dates for the submission of the two reports were March and May 2016, respectively. At this time, Ms. Gao had purchased the furniture, not the same batch.

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5 businesses have no quality inspection report

Subsequently, the new culture reporter randomly surveyed five furniture stores as consumers, and none of them could provide quality inspection reports for furniture. At the strong request of the reporters, the sales staff of the five storefronts used the excuse of “in other stores, you bought me to help you”, “you go online, have the above”, or take out the non-existence. The quality inspection report of the specified product, and some quality inspection reports have expired.

“When operators use quality inspection reports, they are misleading to consumers.” He Chao, director of the Jilin Provincial Forestry Products (Commerce) Quality Supervision and Inspection Station, said that the domestic implementation enterprises will send their own inspection systems, and the annual quality supervision and industry and commerce departments will organize Spot checks, while the direct inspection department is only responsible for the samples sent and the lot. The inspection system means that the company sends the sample to the testing agency. If the company sends the qualified raw material samples for inspection, and the actual production is another batch of raw material samples, the products purchased by the consumers are likely to be inconsistent with the test report.

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There are two reasons for the excessive air quality.

He Chao revealed that there are loopholes in the current national mandatory standards for furniture. Although the indoor air quality standards limit the content of harmful substances such as benzene, toluene and xylene, there is no corresponding regulation in the furniture panel testing standards.

The air quality in the consumer's home is too high. What is the problem? He Chao believes that there are two reasons for this. The first is over-decoration, especially in the small or poorly ventilated space, where a large number of plate-type household products are placed, which will cause harmful components to exceed the standard; the second is the actual environmental indicators of the products purchased by consumers and the test reports provided by the merchants. Does not match.

He Chao said that formaldehyde is a colorless and odorless gas, and the odor present in Ms. Gao’s home may be caused by other pollutants. At present, the interior decoration wooden doors, door frames, cabinets, wooden furniture appear more quality problems, but also the source of harmful substances such as formaldehyde, often ignored by consumers, so it is recommended that Ms. Gao carefully check other furniture decoration products.

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Consumers prove that the cost of high-dimensional rights is difficult

Can Ms. Gao’s test results be evidence of rights protection? The relevant person in charge of the Changchun City Consumers Association said that the air quality test of Ms. Gao’s home is a comprehensive indicator, which is caused by the release of all the decoration items in the house. It must be excluded one by one to determine the source of pollution. Moreover, according to the principle of “who advocates who gives evidence”, Ms. Gao should test the furniture to protect her rights and interests, which undoubtedly increases the cost of proof for consumers.

Because the pollution source of decoration is difficult to determine, the high cost of safeguarding rights is plaguing many consumers. Consumers Association reminds consumers not to be confused by the verbal commitment of the merchant and the identification and certification of the surface. If the merchant cannot provide the report on the use and the toxic substance content on the spot, it should be purchased with caution.

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