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Toxic Travel Trailers

FEMA is urged to move residents after reports that their trailers have dangerously high levels of formaldehyde—but the news is nothing new

As the third Spring since hurricane Katrina approaches, officials at the Centers for Disease Control today urged FEMA to move the 114,000 people who still live in "temporary" travel trailers as quickly as possible. The problem? Dangerously high levels of formaldehyde—a known carcinogen and respiratory irritant—which will only increase as the heat takes its toll on unstable building materials.

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