How to realize formaldehyde free when we make home decor
With the improvement of people's requirements for family living environment, the release of harmful gases such as formaldehyde has become the focus of people's attention. Many people feel worried for this, face home outfit material do not know where to go, produced many misgivings and trouble thereby. Now Luli home with a comprehensive understanding of formaldehyde knowledge, the elimination of formaldehyde anxiety.
What is formaldehyde and where does it come from?
Formaldehyde, an organic compound with chemical formula HCHO, is a colorless irritating gas, easily soluble in water, stimulating to the eyes, nose and so on. Excessive formaldehyde is very harmful to pregnant women and children, which may induce and aggravate asthma and skin allergy, and may cause blood diseases and malformations in serious cases. In the list of carcinogens published by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer, formaldehyde and nicotine, alcohol, betel nut have been placed in the list of class ONE carcinogens.
In reality, formaldehyde is everywhere, natural trees, rice flour, bananas, apples, and even the human body itself also produce formaldehyde. Therefore, it is impossible for consumers to have products completely free of formaldehyde. Aren't people living in dangerous conditions? "It is pseudoscience to talk about harm regardless of dose." As long as the formaldehyde content is within the range allowed by nature, it has no effect on the body. Formaldehyde is harmful only when it exceeds the standard. In life, formaldehyde exceeds the standard mainly from the following sources:
Decoration materials are the main source of formaldehyde in life. Plank uses the glue that formaldehyde exceeds bid, the woodiness furniture of inferior quality, wallpaper of cloth of latex paint, wall of unqualified contains a lot of formaldehyde. These materials belong to a few years or even more than ten years of long-term durable goods, in the whole use cycle will continue to release formaldehyde, seriously affect human health.
Formaldehyde has good crease-proof, water-proof and color fixing advantages, and is often used in the manufacture of clothing, automobile decoration and leather materials. Clothes and cars, as people's most often close-fitting items, increase people's exposure to formaldehyde.
Formaldehyde has excellent performance in anticorrosion, and some food wholesalers also frequently use formaldehyde to prolong the preservation of food, such as squid, tripe, duck intestines, etc. When people eat food soaked in formaldehyde, it will have adverse effects on health.
Formaldehyde detection and removal
Detection of formaldehyde
For formaldehyde detection, many people will buy some formaldehyde detector online, which is not desirable. Shanghai market supervision department from jingdong, Tmall online shopping spot check nearly 20 brands, a total of 41 batches of formaldehyde detector, the price is also between dozens to thousands of yuan, the test results show: all unqualified. If you want to accurately test formaldehyde in your home, be sure to go to a state-approved third-party professional organization.
Removal of formaldehyde
According to the characteristics of formaldehyde soluble in water, the formaldehyde in clothing can be removed by washing several times, and the food with excessive formaldehyde can be refused to buy and eat.
For indoor formaldehyde exceeds the standard, the most effective way to eliminate formaldehyde is to continue window ventilation, conditional can put an industrial fan to increase the air flow rate.
In addition to aldehyde, activated carbon and other ingredients in the premise of safety, also have a certain effect but to continue to replace the use; Put a few greenery also can have certain effect, wait like chlorophytum, aloe.
Due to the natural hydrolysis of lignin, natural wood itself will also emit formaldehyde, and there is no household wood with formaldehyde at all. "0 formaldehyde" does not mean that there is no formaldehyde in the plate, but no formaldehyde added in the manufacturing of the plate, the release of formaldehyde after the finished product is very low, approaching 0. Therefore, the elimination of raw materials themselves, from the production process of strict control of the production of formaldehyde is the best way to remove formaldehyde.
