Formaldehyde in Your Wood Flooring: How to Test and What You Can Do

If you’ve invested in a laminate floor from Lumber Liquidators, you may want to consider having it tested for formaldehyde. A scathing 60 Minutes report has sent the company reeling, as the investigation conducted by the award-winning news program concluded that every Chinese-made laminate wood flooring they sell exceeds California standards for safe formaldehyde levels.

A known carcinogen, formaldehyde has been most associated with embalming, but has been used in resins and glues used in plywood and carpeting. In Lumber Liquidators’ case, the organic compound was used in the glue to keep the wood particles together in …read more