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SOURCES AND FACTORS AFFECTING INDOOR EMISSIONS FROM ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS: SUMMARY AND EVALUATION OF CURRENT LITERATURE
Citation:
Turner, S., C. Martin, R. Hetes, AND C. Northeim. SOURCES AND FACTORS AFFECTING INDOOR EMISSIONS FROM ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS: SUMMARY AND EVALUATION OF CURRENT LITERATURE. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-96/067 (NTIS PB96-183876), 1996.
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Description:
The report summarizes information from the first two phases of a five-phase cooperative effort between research Triangle Institute and the Indoor Environment Management Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division to apply pollution prevention techniques to reduce indoor air emissions from engineered wood products. Research objectives of the effort are to characterize indoor air emissions from engineered wood products and to identify and evaluate pollution prevention approaches for reducing indoor air emissions from these products. The research's five phases are to: (1) evaluate existing data and testing methodologies; (2) convene research planning meetings; (3) select high-priority emissions sources; (4) evaluate high-priority emissions sources; and (5) develop and demonstrate pollution prevention approaches for reducing indoor air emissions from high-priority sources. Information presented here will be used to select reconstituted wood components with various finishing and resin systems for initial emissions screening. (NOTE: Reconstituted engineered wood components - e.g., particleboard and medium-density fiberboard - are common to several types of consumer wood products - e.g., residential and ready-to-assemble furniture and kitchen cabinets.)