Several news sources have recently reported that drywall imported from China and installed in new and renovated homes in 2004-2005 has been creating noxious sulfur (rotten-egg) odors and potential health problems. In addition, the fumes given off are causing a problem with copper wiring and the coils in air conditioning units.
Doug Hoffman, executive director of the National Organization of Remediators and Mold Inspectors said he has been getting a lot of reports about the Chinese drywall recently from his members. Most of the complaints so far are in the U.S. Southeast. He said: "What they're finding is that the drywall being shipped over from China is emitting much higher levels of sulfur, methane, and other volatile organic compounds." At highest risk for health problems and children and the elderly. People with asthma and chemical sensitivities are at even higher risk.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) confirms there is a problem, but says the breadth and severity of the problem are unknown. However, anyone living along the Gulf Coast knows only too well the extensive damage caused by major hurricanes in 2004 and 2005 and the great amount of rebuilding necessary which is still going on today.
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Wow, when will it ever end? How do you mess something like this up, anyways? It's hard to imagine a way to screw up drywall that produces this effect without simultaneously making the manufacturing process more expensive rather than less... sooner or later, we are going to have to face the fact that a lot of the stuff coming into free countries from China - a country governed by a brutal tolitarian regime - has probably been dangerously manipulated with malicious intent.It sickens me that Republicans simultaneously claim that the USA under Reagen "defeated tolitarian communism" (by bankrupting Russia's oil industry and outspending the USSR on defense) while having spent the entire time since then selling us out to the Chinese. Apparently to the fans of the Reagan/Bush/Bush eras, what makes America great isn't our freedoms and our ability to control the government instead of having it control us, but rather the "freedom" to do any sort of business one wants, even if it means ripping people off. I disagree, my fundamental values are that items such as the Bill of Rights are what make our country great - and its time we started viewing China as the antithesis of freedom that it really, truly is. Just because a country that enslaves its citizenry will "do business" with the United States doesn't mean we should welcome that business with open arms.
I could not agree more with your post. Some of the drywall from China bears the name "KNAUF" which is a German company with drywall manufacturing plants in China.
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