Chinese Drywall

By Phillip Goad

This is a response to the Sun Sentinel forum piece of May 3, 2009, “Chinese drywall spins off silent hurricane”:

The use of the term “toxic” is misleading to the public in reference to the recent drywall issue. My firm has been retained by Knauf Plasterboard Tianjin to perform third-party air sampling and to perform an independent examination of the results of similar sampling performed by other organizations.

KPT is the only drywall manufacturer that I am aware of to respond to builders’ complaints and conduct testing to ensure that there are no health risks to Florida homeowners.

The chemicals identified in testing performed thus far are naturally occurring, are present in the human body, and have been measured in human breath at concentrations similar to those we detected in our home sampling. There are some incorrect conclusions being made that have no scientific basis.

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