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"DENVILLE, N.J. — Walter E. Friedel’s plans to waterproof the tile floors of his hot tub room using Stand ’n Seal, a do-it-yourself product sold at his local Home Depot, promised to be a quick weekend project, one he could wrap up in time to catch the Giants football game on a Sunday afternoon.
Dr. Walter E. Friedel still undergoes pulmonary function tests as a result of his exposure to Stand ’n Seal in 2005.
Other articles examining changes at federal agencies looked at the Consumer Product Safety Commission's record on enforcement actions; Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Stand ’n Seal seemed to offer an easy means to a successful do-it-yourself home project.
The product offered “a revolutionary fast way” to seal grout around tiles and, its label boasted, any extra spray would “evaporate harmlessly.”
“It sounds like no big deal,” Dr. Friedel said, looking back.
But instead of watching football that afternoon, Dr. Friedel, a 63-year-old physician, ended up being rushed to the hospital, where he would spend four days in intensive care, gasping for air, his lungs chemically inflamed.
Dr. Friedel was the latest victim of a product whose dangers had become known months earlier to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the companies that made and sold it. Before Dr. Friedel bought Stand ’n Seal, at least 80 people had been sickened using it, two of them fatally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/washington/08consumer.html?ref=us
Dr. Walter E. Friedel still undergoes pulmonary function tests as a result of his exposure to Stand ’n Seal in 2005.
Other articles examining changes at federal agencies looked at the Consumer Product Safety Commission's record on enforcement actions; Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the Motor Carrier Safety Administration.
Stand ’n Seal seemed to offer an easy means to a successful do-it-yourself home project.
The product offered “a revolutionary fast way” to seal grout around tiles and, its label boasted, any extra spray would “evaporate harmlessly.”
“It sounds like no big deal,” Dr. Friedel said, looking back.
But instead of watching football that afternoon, Dr. Friedel, a 63-year-old physician, ended up being rushed to the hospital, where he would spend four days in intensive care, gasping for air, his lungs chemically inflamed.
Dr. Friedel was the latest victim of a product whose dangers had become known months earlier to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the companies that made and sold it. Before Dr. Friedel bought Stand ’n Seal, at least 80 people had been sickened using it, two of them fatally.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/08/washington/08consumer.html?ref=us