Advice on kitchen cabinets and floor sealant

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Hi I live in a rental building and had a disastrous plumbing leak 10

days ago. There was a clog deep in the boiler room that backed up

black bilge into my and neighbor's kitchen, in my case they removed

the kitchen pipe to try and snake down and so I got gushing black

bilge into my kitchen and part of my livingroom. It stunk.

I had them rip out the kitchen cabinet base which is five feet, along

with the sink etc, and not surprisingly it was soaked as well as

pooled under it on the tile floor and under the stove. We cleaned

everything with bleach solution. They are solid white tiles and the

wall did not get any water damage at all (we moisture tested). So the

kitchen is okay.

We put bleach solution on the livingroom floor and let it soak in and

rip in all the parquet tiles where the bilge had been.

Now: they are going to replace my cabinet and I asked for wood,

assuming it would be safe as compared to particle board but searching

the internet has shown me this is not the case. They already ordered

it but have not received or installed it yet.

I don't want it therefore if it has formaldehyde which it probably

will as its probably plywood but I'll ask my super on Monday. I know

you can coat with safeseal but I'm not sure I trust this. Why install

something that I have to put several coats on--or do people feel for a

five foot cabinet this is okay?

Otherwise I'm hunting for a used one but that's not so easy to find.

An eco safe one will cost $2000 and I can't afford that.

The other issue is when they do the floors--will AFM's polyureseal be

okay?

I'm not universally sensitive but I am VERY sensitive and reactive

WHEN something bothers me. There's no point to taking chances and find

out something bothers me. I probably would be okay with water based

polyurethane but I'd rather pay for AFM and be safe.

What is the experience and advice here?