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  • Also known as outgassing, this is the emission of chemicals from building materials, furniture, textiles and bedding. Many of those “new house�? smells that we enjoy accumulate in the bloodstream and have been linked to increasing rates of asthma and some cancers, particularly in children. (From Double-Tongued Dictionay)

    June 9, 2008