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sstorkel
at Wed Feb 18 19:02:30 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by sstorkel ]
>>On top of that, the preserving agent that is used is fairly toxic. I'm not sure what that means to herps after it's "aged" for a while, however. But anyone who's cut a sheet has smelled the chemicals. Yuck.
Yeah, well pretty much any man-made sheet good (plywood, OSB, MDO, melamine, MDF, particle board) is full of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen... According to the EPA, OSB actually emits less formaldehyde than many other presssed-wood products! Apparently, the stuff designed for external use uses a slightly different kind of binder, which doesn't outgas as quickly...
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