How to judge whether furniture contains formaldehyde

As we all know, formaldehyde is extremely harmful to human health. This harmful substance can even cause leukemia or cancer, and may also cause miscarriage or fetal malformation in pregnant women. Therefore, for some people with special physical conditions, they must ensure that there is no formaldehyde in their home before they can move in safely. So, how can we determine whether furniture contains formaldehyde? Here are several methods for you.

Because formaldehyde is a liquid gas under normal circumstances, as a highly volatile substance, it is difficult to completely seal it from the finish and edge sealing. Therefore, when purchasing custom-made furniture, you should identify it by smell, but it is worth noting that some environmentally friendly boards may have a smell when you open them. This is not formaldehyde, but a smell that the wood originally emits.

If conditions permit, consumers may ask merchants for some furniture scraps, and by boiling them in hot water, they can immediately determine whether they are real or fake. Take environmentally friendly boards and solid wood boards as an example. The water boiled with solid wood boards gives off a purely natural smell; while the liquid boiled with boards that exceed the formaldehyde standard has a dark color and emits a chemical smell.

Method 3 for judging whether furniture contains formaldehyde: Look at the surface and identify the board

Many furniture brands choose solid wood particle boards for their cabinet bodies, and the high-quality solid wood particle boards used by Wei Yi Customized have a unique dense lamellar structure in the cross section. Consumers can identify custom furniture by observing the cross-section at the punching and groove locations before installation.

The methods mentioned above all require a relatively complicated process for testing and the results will be a bit subjective. If tested using a professional formaldehyde content detector, the result will be more intuitive. However, it is worth noting that the furniture tested with the instrument is best tested with new finished furniture. The samples provided by the merchant may have been placed for a long time and the formaldehyde may have volatilized, which may lead to inaccurate test results.