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15 Feb ’12
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Make sure to check your flooring if so.
NEW YORK — Lumber Liquidators’ stock plunged Monday as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now says people exposed to certain types of the company’s laminate flooring were three times more likely to get cancer than the agency previously predicted. The CDC said that in its original report it had used an incorrect value for ceiling height.
It said that resulted in health risks calculated using airborne concentration elements about three times lower than they should have been. It now estimates the risk of cancer at six to 30 cases per 100,000 people. It previously estimated two to nine cases per 100,000 people.
The agency said that its recommendations will likely stay the same — that people take steps to reduce exposure to formaldehyde emitted from the Chinese-made flooring. -
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6 Oct ’15
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Scary stuff...crazy expensive to replace all that flooring in so many homes. I would think this will be the death of Lumber Liquidators.
15 Feb ’12
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agreed, I remembered after posting this that newsettler had put some laminate from there in his whole house, he's googling to see if it is one of the affected products
6 Oct ’15
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We were thinking of trying to save a buck on the upstairs and go with a snap and lock flooring...I think we will be going with the pre finished strip maple now...Trying to minimize the 'toxic' stuff as much as I can in the house and stick with natural items...but you can only do so much.
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