Camfil Canada’s Air Quality Experts Launch New Resource on Preventing VOC Health Damage
Toronto, Ontario — According to Health Canada, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are compounds with a low boiling point (between 50 and 250 degrees celsius), meaning that they vapourize relatively easily. While VOCs can be naturally occurring and essential for natural processes such as contamination, man-made VOCs cause a wide range of damaging health effects, particularly when they are trapped indoors at high concentrations.
In a new educational resource, Camfil Canada’s air quality and air filtration experts share essential information on how to prevent health damage associated with VOCs.
“Canadians can reduce exposure to harmful VOCs by meeting label precautions, properly storing products, ensuring good air circulation, and not mixing products. Furthermore, it is important to minimize the use of scented products and to remove unnecessary products. When removing VOC-emitting products, ensure they are disposed of safely and contact local municipalities and relevant garbage disposal councils for instruction.”
—Victor Rengel, Segment Leader for Molecular Contamination Control at Camfil Canada
The educational resource provides further information to answer the following questions:
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What are VOCs?
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Where do VOCs come from?
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What are the health effects of VOCs?
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How do you reduce VOCs indoors?
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What air filters get rid of VOCs?
About Camfil Canada Clean Air Solutions
For more than half a century, Camfil has been helping people breathe cleaner air. As a leading manufacturer of premium clean air solutions, we provide commercial and industrial systems for air filtration and air pollution control that improve worker and equipment productivity, minimize energy use, and benefit human health and the environment. We firmly believe that the best solutions for our customers are the best solutions for our planet, too. That’s why every step of the way – from design to delivery and across the product life cycle – we consider the impact of what we do on people and on the world around us. Through a fresh approach to problem-solving, innovative design, precise process control, and a strong customer focus we aim to conserve more, use less and find better ways – so we can all breathe easier.
The Camfil Group is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, and has 33 manufacturing sites, six R&D centers, local sales offices in 30 countries, and about 4,800 employees and growing. We proudly serve and support customers in a wide variety of industries and in communities across the world. To discover how Camfil Canada can help you to protect people, processes and the environment, visit us at www.camfil.com/en-ca/.
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Published by: Thomas Jacob