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GreenBiz Blog: So long toxics: A builder’s guide to safer chemicals

GreenBiz Blog: So long toxics: A builder’s guide to safer chemicals

10/21/2015 GreenBiz Greenscreen Blogs Bulletins

Excerpt from the GreenBiz article:

Health experts long have recognized the risks of individual and groups of toxic chemicals in building products, beginning with lead and asbestos and continuing to formaldehyde, volatile organic compounds, mercury, arsenic, certain phthalates and flame retardants.

These chemicals, among many others, are associated with a range of adverse health and environmental effects, including cancer, obesity, asbestosis, ecotoxicity, endocrine disruption and neurotoxicity. 

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