A New Study Found Fifty-Five Commonly Used Home Building Materials In The U.S. To Be Extremely Hazardous To Your Health

These are both commonly found in carpet flooring across the United States. BHA’s concentration was eight hundred times greater than the guideline for safe human exposure.

Hexamethylene diisocyanate was no better and had concentration levels thousands of times higher. This chemical is specifically linked with lung problems following long-term exposure. In the short term, this chemical may irritate your eyes, nose, or throat.

Lei Huang, one of the study’s authors, said, “People are inside buildings more than ninety percent of their time– breathing and touching those chemicals in building materials. So, it’s very important to know whether there are harmful chemicals that could affect their health.”

The researchers are rightfully alarmed by these results and believe many of these compounds need to be phased out of building construction.

They hope that now, manufacturers will have enough data to innovate more healthy and sustainable products. Potential homebuyers need to be aware of these all-too-prevalent health risks themselves, too.

To read the complete study, visit the report here.