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| Subject: FEMA trailers toxic, tests show Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:14 am | |
| Unhealthy levels of formaldehyde are found. The agency will expedite efforts to relocate occupants.
GULFPORT, MISS. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday that it would accelerate efforts to get victims of hurricanes Katrina and Rita out of government-supplied trailers after tests showed that the temporary residences contain unhealthy levels of toxic formaldehyde.
Tests in a statistically sampled selection of 519 trailers showed that formaldehyde levels averaged five times higher than levels in new housing, and in some cases much higher than that.
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