{"id":5390,"date":"2015-10-30T08:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2015\/10\/30\/flat-pack-furniture-ticking-timebombs\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T08:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T02:47:43","slug":"flat-pack-furniture-ticking-timebombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/flat-pack-furniture-ticking-timebombs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flat-pack furniture &#039;ticking timebombs&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Published by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.streem.com.au\/Streem\">Streem<\/a><\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">Flat-pack furniture imported to Australia could be a ticking timebomb for people&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n<p>News Limited newspapers report test completed by manufacturers in Australia show the flat-pack furniture contains high levels of the toxin chemical formaldehyde &#8211; known to cause cancer.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The products are imported from China and sometimes contain levels of the chemical far above International standards.<\/p>\n<p>Tests on random flat-pack furniture show some furniture could be unsuitable for indoor use due to the high levels of the chemical.<\/p>\n<p>Formaldehyde, a component of glues used in wood products, is known to cause skin, eye and respiratory damage and the World Health Organisation says the chemical in high concentrations is a cause of throat and nasal cancers, the report says.<\/p>\n<p>Many retailers sell flat-pack products including IKEA, Bunnings and other major department stores.<\/p>\n<p>The report did not indicate who or where the products were being sold, or if specific store products contained high levels of formaldehyde.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from http:\/\/www.streem.com.au\/<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Streem Flat-pack furniture imported to Australia could be a ticking timebomb for people&#8217;s health. News Limited newspapers report test completed by manufacturers in Australia show the flat-pack furniture contains high levels of the toxin chemical formaldehyde &#8211; known to cause cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-indonesia-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}