FEMA trailer plaintiff dies of cancer
August 8, 2008Desiree Collins, 47, died July 2, her lawyer said. She had asked the federal court in Baton Rouge to approve her suit as a class action against companies that sold trailers to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Her lung cancer was diagnosed a week before she died, attorney Justin Woods of New Orleans said Thursday. Lung cancer typically is diagnosed after years of growth, a major reason it is so deadly.
Woods said he hasn’t determined whether formaldehyde is to blame for the cancer, and forensics specialists will test tissue samples taken while Collins was alive.
Formaldehyde is used in a number of materials inside the trailers. It can irritate the eyes, nose, throat and skin, according the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-13-664193430_x.htm
high formaldehyde levels in the new travel trailers . no not just the fema ones, the ones you pick up at your RV dealer then in time your pets take ill and die three of ours before we found out why,THEN MAYBE YOUR KIDS AND YOUR MOM AND DAD THEN ARE YOU SICK FROM THE TOXIC STUFF TO more info is a toxic trailer .co
It seems that these travel trailers has more safety guidelines that needs to be looked at. People and pets dying due to toxic formaldehyde fumes are just not acceptable, by FEMA or any other negligent RV dealers.