Re: Fw : AP IMPACT: Chinese drywall poses potential risks/Department of Customs?

[Guest guest]

I don't intend to defend our Customs Dept or inspection

procedures and I share your outrage with the continued assults

on life on earth. But we have to realize that the sulpher in the

Chinese drywall has never occurred before. So why would we

even know to test for it? We can't afford to test for " everything "

which could possibly be in every product we use. BTW, this was

quickly reported to the EPA by industry consultants who just as

quickly began investigating which led to the discovery in a matter

of weeks of the sulpher in Chinese drywall. They have traced the

distribution routes so they have a good idea where most of it has

been used.

Some events are easy to find and resolve. Others are more

difficult. It also helps that " someone else " is at fault rather than

" us. "

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> Don't we have inspections in place under the Customs Dept. which inspect these

cargo ships or the Consumer

> Product Safety division or other government based group to monitor this stuff?

This drywall ends up

> everywhere.

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> Maybe they should go back to using the old fashion craft of plastering (which

does not have paper to get

> moldy) and people in America we could put to work? Wouldn't that help everyone

involved? Jobs and job

> training for Americans. Lathes and horsehair or newsprint coated with borax

insulation after the job was

> done.

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> And no poison coming from a foreign country. Maybe we should strip this

country of its " favored " nation

> status.

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> Objet: AP IMPACT: Chinese drywall poses potential risks

> À: ginloi@...

> Date: Samedi 11 Avril 2009, 13h59

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> http://news. /s/ap/20090411/ap_on_bi_ge/chinese_drywall

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[Guest guest]

Thanks very much Ginloi,

Does anyone know of a non-toxic wallboard? Would also appreciate hearing from

people who have had success with other non-toxic building materials. Hopefully

at some point soon we will be looking at restoring our wdh.

It would be nice if we stopped dealing with China all together, but that won't

happen unless the country at large really raises hell.

Thanks,

Sam

Don't we have inspections in place under the Customs Dept. which inspect

these cargo ships or the Consumer Product Safety division or other government

based group to monitor this stuff?  This drywall ends up everywhere. 

Maybe they should go back to using the old fashion craft of plastering (which

does not have paper to get moldy) and people in America we could put to work? 

Wouldn't that help everyone involved?  Jobs and job training for Americans. 

Lathes and horsehair or newsprint coated with borax insulation after the job was

done.   

[Guest guest]

Carl,

Do you know if all this drywall has been pulled so no others will purchase it?

I heard there are places in Georgia and Alabama trying to unload piles of it for

an unbelievably cheap price. Of course, there are not a lot of takers, but

still the concern is there.

> From: Carl E. Grimes <grimes@...>

I don't intend to defend our Customs Dept or

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does not have paper to get moldy) and people in America we could put to work? 

Wouldn't that help everyone involved?  Jobs and job training for Americans. 

Lathes and horsehair or newsprint coated with borax insulation after the job was

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[Guest guest]

I don't know the anwer to your question about stopping the sale of

the affected drywall. But the following was posted on the

IEQuality discussion group announcing a conference on Chinese

Drywall Litigation.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> Carl,

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> Do you know if all this drywall has been pulled so no others will purchase it?

I heard there are places in

> Georgia and Alabama trying to unload piles of it for an unbelievably cheap

price. Of course, there are not a

> lot of takers, but still the concern is there.

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> > From: Carl E. Grimes <grimes@...>

>

> I don't intend to defend our Customs Dept or

> > inspection

> >

> > procedures and I share your outrage with the continued

> > assults

> >

> > on life on earth. But we have to realize that the sulpher

> > in the

> >

> > Chinese drywall has never occurred before. So why would we

> >

> >

> > even know to test for it?

>

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[Guest guest]

But you must NOW be able to come up with some test for sulfur in drywall. This

shouldn't continue. Is anyone over there watching what's being done? llaci