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What Are Volatile Organic Compounds and How to Avoid Them?

What Are Volatile Organic Compounds and How to Avoid Them?

Posted on14. Dec, 2009 by Oksana Irwin.

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors.  VOCs are emitted by a wide array of products numbering [...]

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How To Freshen Your Home Naturally

How To Freshen Your Home Naturally

Posted on02. Dec, 2009 by Oksana Irwin.

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Your air freshener may be primed to whisk you off to an alpine meadow in springtime or a verdant oasis after a rain shower, but it could also be blasting a raft of toxic contaminants all around you.
In 2006, a study conducted by scientists at University of California, Berkeley for the California Air Resources Board revealed [...]

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