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   Banned toxin found in wood floor finishes

 

Text Box: Wed Jan 16, 2008 7:10pm WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A wood floor finish popular in the 1950s and 1960s may be a significant source of the banned, disease-causing pollutants known as PCBs, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. They did a case study in the homes of older women and found that those with a PCB-containing wood floor finish sold under the brand name Fabulon had very high indoor air, dust and blood levels of PCBs -- 50 years after the floors were installed. "Use of a commercially available PCB-containing wood floor finish in residences during the 1950s and 1960s is an overlooked but potentially important source of current PCB exposure in the general population," Ruthann Rudel of the Silent Spring Institute near Boston and colleagues wrote in their report. Many buildings, including schools, may still harbor PCB-containing floor finishes or other products, they wrote in the BioMed Central journal Environmental Health. Rudel and colleagues tested the bodies and homes of 120 women living on Cape Cod in Massachusetts who had been taking part in a breast cancer study. "Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are persistent pollutants identified worldwide as human blood and breast milk contaminants," they wrote. They accumulate in body fat over time. "In an earlier study, we detected PCBs in indoor air in 31 percent of 120 homes on Cape Cod," they wrote. More testing showed the residents had very high blood levels of PCBs -- above the 95th percentile for the U.S. population. The women lived for 10 years or longer in homes where Fabulon had been used. "Serum concentrations in residents and air and dust concentrations were especially high in a home where a resident reported use of PCB-containing floor finish in the past, and where the floor of one room was sanded and refinished just prior to sample collection," the researchers wrote. Production and use of PCBs was banned in the United States in 1977, with a very few exceptions, after studies showed they could damage the immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems, as well as cause breast cancer. (Reporting by Maggie Fox, editing by Will Dunham)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A Note From Eric Nylin 01/16/08

 

                Your Old Wood  Floors could contain this Product. Fabulon was used in older homes for floor finishing by almost all of the old wood floor companies back then. It was very durable and lasts a long time.  I can tell just by looking at the floor if it has Old Fabulon finish on it . It tends to be a dingy Yellow /Orange color to it with some depth. It gums up the sandpaper resulting in a difficult job . Some of the Older guys who taught me this business used to say to me when we first showed up to do a job , “It’s Fabulon , I Can Smell it ” I thought they were crazy but they were always right because it seems that it never stops  off gassing . When sanded it has a signature smell .  I would say that most of the older houses  that we sand NOW and  in the last 21 years  contained this Harmful product or equivalent .  This is just another reason Dustless Floor Sanding is so important ! All of this Toxic dust will be evacuated outside of your home by our high powered DCS system .        If your house is in the 40 - 50 + year range and you haven’t done the wood floors since then , chances are you have this product off gassing in your home right now . Especially if the floors have been just top coated to spruce them up or lay hidden Under rugs. A note to consider is Fabulon stopped making that product a long time ago and they are an upstanding high end benchmark wood finish company. Their Products today do not contain PCB’s  and are some of the best available.

Nylin Floors has been using Dustless Floor Sanding in the Boston Massachusetts area for over 4 years now . We are one of the first to offer it to our clients backed by 21 years floor sanding experience. Please call me for a free estimate or concerns over this alarming matter. I will Offer Special Reduced Rates to  Family’s in danger of Exposure to this product . House must fall into timeline of Product specified.

 

-Eric Nylin   781-321-4647

 

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