SICK of your new home? You could have good reason. Studies in Australia and
Britain have found high levels of toxic chemicals leaking from furniture, floors
and paints in newly built houses.
A study by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
(CSIRO) found that homes in Melbourne less than a year old had up to 20 times
the safety limit of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) recommended by the
National Health and Medical Research Council. In England 1 in 20 homes under a
year old have levels at least twice that of the Australian limit of 500
micrograms per cubic…
