Chinese book lovers were poisoned because of their own library

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A couple in Eastern China were poisoned because of their own extensive book collection. Details of the reports The South China Morning Post.

The husband and the wife, who lives in Taizhou (Jiangsu province) constantly coughing, and their child was suffering from a cold. On trips to the doctors, they spent 8 million yuan (nearly $ 1,200), but doctors could not help them. Then the woman thought that the problem may be in the air. At her request the local utility to take measurements and found that all rooms of the apartment were exceeded, the level of formaldehyde.

By Chinese standards concentration exceeds 0.08 milligrams of formaldehyde per square metre is considered dangerous. In the bedroom of the spouses, the concentration was 0.1 milligrams, about bookshelves and 0.26 milligrams. Experts counted in the apartment tens of thousands of books — they stood on shelves and lying on the floor in each room.

Formaldehyde is included in the composition of the printing ink used for printing books and Newspapers.

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