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FEMA trailer saga continues as residents sue manufacturers.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-NOV-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: FEMA trailer saga continues as residents sue manufacturers.(Federal Emergency Management Agency)

Article Excerpt
More than 500 Louisianans who have been living in trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) since their homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina are suing mobile-home and travel-trailer manufacturers for making products that violate state and federal law by producing formaldehyde "at a dangerously unhealthy rate." (Culler v. Gulf Stream Coach, Inc., No. 07-4018 (E.D. La. filed Aug. 7, 2007).)

Formaldehyde is used as a wood preservative in construction material. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies the compound as a human carcinogen; the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency classifies it as a probable human carcinogen.

The plaintiffs' complaint charges that the trailers were manufactured "without the benefits of defendants' usual quality control....

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