This common thing may cause you to inhale formaldehyde while sleeping!

In Zhang Ma’s home in Guangzhou, formaldehyde levels exceeded the standard by 6 times.

In Pan Ma’s home in Guizhou, formaldehyde levels exceeded the standard by 4 times.

In Li Ma’s home in Guangzhou, formaldehyde levels exceeded the standard by 3 times.

In Fan's home in Jiaxing, the formaldehyde level exceeds the standard by 2 times.

In Huang's home in Hangzhou, the formaldehyde level exceeds the standard by 1 times.

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The reason why the formaldehyde level in their home exceeds the standard so much is not anything else but the bedside table that almost every household has and faces every night when they sleep.

Not only that, such bedside tables that release a lot of formaldehyde may still exist in many people's homes...

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Horrible nightstand

"Hello, the formaldehyde concentration in other rooms of my house is within the standard, but the formaldehyde concentration in the children's room exceeds the standard by 4 times!" After testing the formaldehyde, Pan Ma from Guizhou immediately came to us for consultation.

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How could the formaldehyde concentration in different rooms of the same home differ by 20 times?

Mother Pan told us that she placed the formaldehyde meter on the bedside table when testing the children's room.

Could this bedside table be the culprit of formaldehyde release?

With this question in mind, we asked Pan Ma to take a photo of the bedside table for us to see:

From the outside, this bedside table looks normal. The veneer is made of technological cloth and the drawers are jointed panels, so it should not release much formaldehyde.

So where does formaldehyde come from?

So we asked Pan to take another photo of the inside of the bedside table for us to see. When we saw the inside of the bedside table, we were all shocked:

The entire bedside table is made of low-quality density boards! And these low-quality density boards are all exposed, and they are too lazy to even do the veneer!

You know, low-quality density boards will release a lot of formaldehyde, and without the barrier of the veneer, the formaldehyde will be rampant. And if the bedside table with low-quality density boards is facing the bedside, I wonder how much formaldehyde people will inhale when they sleep!

After receiving the feedback from Ms. Pan, we paid special attention to the bedside table. As a result, within a month or two, we received feedback from Ms. Zhang in Guangzhou, Ms. Li in Guangzhou, Mr. Fan in Jiaxing, and Mr. Huang in Hangzhou that the formaldehyde in their homes exceeded the standard, and the source of formaldehyde release was the bedside table!

In addition, when searching for "bedside table" in the background of our formaldehyde meter drifting, we found that there were 439 households with formaldehyde exceeding the standard, and they all expressed doubts about the bedside table in their logs.

The Jilin Provincial Market Supervision and Administration Bureau also announced that bedside tables of some companies were recalled due to excessive formaldehyde.

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There are so many problems with excessive formaldehyde in bedside tables! This makes us feel worried.

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Measured "formaldehyde" bedside table

In order to verify whether it is easy for ordinary consumers to buy "formaldehyde" bedside tables, we anonymously purchased two

One of them is ranked first on the best-selling list, with sales of more than 10,000 per month.

We placed the two bedside tables in the self-built experimental chamber of Dad's Laboratory (12㎡, 30m³, about the size of a child's room), removed other interferences, and measured the formaldehyde concentration in the experimental chamber after being sealed for 12 hours in accordance with the requirements of GB/T 18883-2002 "Indoor Air Quality Standard".

As a result, they can all cause formaldehyde levels to exceed the standard in a room the size of a child's room!

Next, we sent one of the bedside tables (more than 10,000 units sold per month) to a third-party laboratory, and the results showed:

The formaldehyde content of this bedside table exceeds the standard by nearly 3 times!

The seller of this bedside table also assured us: "The product is made of environmentally friendly materials, you can rest assured, and we will not sell unqualified products."

It can be seen that the products actually sold by the merchants are not completely consistent with the products previously submitted for inspection.

This is the case for bedside tables with monthly sales of over 10,000 units, so the environmental friendliness of bedside tables sold in other small shops is even more difficult to gauge.

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How to avoid "formaldehyde" bedside table

In order to avoid pitfalls on bedside tables, we have specially summarized this guide. You can save it and take it out to read when you need it.

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Last words

Shopping for furniture online is risky, so you must be careful when purchasing. You will never go wrong if you look around and ask more questions.

If you can't tell whether your bedside table will cause excessive formaldehyde in your home, you can also use a formaldehyde meter to test it:

1️⃣First measure the indoor formaldehyde concentration with a bedside table to see if it exceeds the standard.

2️⃣If the formaldehyde concentration exceeds the standard, you can remove the bedside table for ventilation, seal it and retest the indoor formaldehyde concentration without the bedside table to see the difference before and after.

3️⃣If the difference is large, it can be basically determined that the bedside table is the source of formaldehyde release.

This method also works for other easily movable furniture.

Do you have any questions about formaldehyde? Or are there any new formaldehyde risks? Please leave us a message. We are waiting for you in the comment section.

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