You may probably heard about the Chinese Drywall controversy in 2009. This controversy is an issue of health and safety which involves manufactured defective drywall in China from which the United States has imported starting the year 2001. Due to catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, this has resulted the increase in the volume of importation for the said product in America.
The health and safety issue falls on the negative side effects in human health of a defective Chinese drywall. The following are just a few of the documented negative health side effect of the said defective product being investigated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Difficulty in Breathing, Irritated and Itchy Eyes, Bloody Nose, Persistent Cough, Runny Nose. Sinus Infections, Recurrent Headaches and Asthma Attacks.
Questions like how do residents know if their home has a defective Chinese drywall have been generally answered as follows: The homeowners experience health problems such as those enumerated above, The homeowner finds corrosion and blackening of certain metals in the home, The homeowners suffer frequent failure of electrical and piping systems for example air conditioning units and The homeowners suffer from noxious sulfur odors, maybe also described as rotten egg-like smell. The Consumer Product Safety Commission currently do The Consumer Product Safety Commission currently doesn’t list any actions which are definitive to take.
