CSPA questions validity of recent candle study.The Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA CSPA Columbia Scholastic Press Association CSPA Consumer Specialty Products Association CSPA California Sportfishing Protection Alliance CSPA Canadian Steel Producers Association CSPA Chinese Software Professionals Association CSPA Canadian Sport Parachuting Association ) is questioning the scientific validity and conclusions of a study alleging that paraffin candles release harmful amounts of indoor air pollutants pollutants see environmental pollution. . [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. CSPA, the results and assertions of the researchers are in stark contrast to earlier studies and contradict the overwhelming body of scientific data on the topic. In 2007, an international consortium sponsored a large-scale study that analyzed the combustion products of candles made from several waxes including soy wax, beeswax beeswax: see wax. beeswax Commercially useful wax secreted by worker honeybees to make the cell walls of the honeycomb. A bee consumes an estimated 6–10 lbs (3–4. and paraffin for more than 300 chemicals known or suspected of toxicity or other health effects. This study demonstrated that the combustion products from all of the waxes were virtually identical in both composition and quantity. All candles produced combustion products at levels far below the most conservative indoor-air standards. This international study clearly demonstrated that all waxes burned cleanly and safely, which is in direct contrast with the results and conclusion of South Carolina State University South Carolina State University (also known as SCSU, State College among the older alumni members, or simply State), is a Historically black university located in Orangeburg, South Carolina. researchers. More info: www.cspa.org |
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