Experts Say Shower Curtains Could Be Causing Serious Harm To Our Health

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More than a decade later, the EPA renewed its VOC-centric research into bathroom curtains made of PVC. This time, it looked for a quartet of potential emissions: phenol, toluene, ethylbenzene and methyl isobutyl ketone. A month into the study of the shower curtain, all four of these VOCs lingered in the surrounding air.

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