What are the most hazardous products we typically bring into our own homes?

What are the most hazardous products we typically bring into our own homes?

Gary Ginsberg (Toxicologist) gives expert video advice on: What are the most hazardous products we typically bring into our own homes?; How can I minimize my exposure to dangerous household products?; Is there a half-life for the chemicals in my home? and more...

There are many different types of chemicals that are used to make consumer products what they are. And the most hazardous types of ingredients in consumer products are things that you'll find at the hardware store that have high levels of chemicals that vaporize into indoor air. So everybody knows what paint smells like as it is curing. And if you have varnish, you know that as you coat the wood, that there are things getting released off of that coating that get into your indoor air. And these chemicals actually can induce headache, can induce asthmatic reactions in children. Probably the most toxic chemicals actually come from our adhesives and glues, because there you're actually doing a chemistry experiment in your workshop every time that you're bonding two surfaces together. There's a chemical reaction that's ongoing and it's releasing highly reactive chemicals into your breathing zone which can stimulate asthma, be irritating to the lungs. So those are some of the most reactive and dangerous chemicals that are in our products.