Ready to decorate and buy paint, someone recommended Benjamin Moore, saying it was ultra-low VOC. What is VOC? What's the harm to your health?

VOC is the abbreviation of volatile organic compounds, and VOC in general refers to volatile organic compounds. But the definition of environmental protection refers to a kind of lively volatile organic compounds, that is, the kind of volatile organic compounds that will cause harm.

VOC is a volatile organic compound, which has great influence on human health. When the indoor VOC reaches a certain concentration, people will feel headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue and so on. In a short period of time, convulsions and coma will occur in severe cases, which will harm people's liver, kidney, brain and nervous system and cause serious consequences such as memory loss.

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With the continuous expansion of the scope of VOCs pollution and people's gradual understanding of its harm, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe held a conference on transnational air pollution in Geneva on 199 1, and adopted 1 VOCs Protocol on Transnational Air Pollution, which requires signatory countries to adopt1. 1990, the United States revised the Clean Air Act (CAA), requiring that VOCs emissions be reduced by 70% by the year 2000.

Therefore, it has become the only way to solve VOCs pollution to develop VOCs substitute products and find the best VOCs control technology. With the increasing attention of countries around the world to VOC pollution and the strict requirements of environmental regulations on VOC emission standards, its treatment technology is gradually improving and perfecting.

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