We are all becoming more aware of chemicals in our environment and the health effects. Volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) are used in home construction and in many of the products that we use every day. VOCs and health is a complicated issue but in this article I give a simple and practical approach. I deal […]
We spend as much as 90% of our time indoors, either at home or at work. Volatile and semivolatile organic compounds (VOCs and SVOCs) are found in virtually all indoor air at levels that are 2-5 times those in outdoor air. Organic compounds are molecules made principally of carbon hydrogen and oxygen, they are present […]
If you are looking for an air purifier to improve your air quality, everyone knows they should buy one with a true HEPA filter. So it seems straightforward, but the term CADR keeps coming up. What is it and why does it matter? On the whole, the CADR, the clean air delivery rate, is the […]