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CLM-PAINT-001 · VERIFIED

Emissions in newly painted homes

In dwellings painted during the previous year, total indoor volatile organic compounds were about 100 µg/m³ higher, with significantly raised C8–C11 aliphatic compounds, butanols and TXIB, and formaldehyde rose where wood details had been newly painted.

SCOPE

Air measured in 62 dwellings within an asthma study; it reports emissions from paint, not odour.

SUPPORT CHECK

The statement the claim rests on was found word for word in the abstract fetched from the named service, and an editor read the full abstract against every part of the claim. Abstract from Europe PMC (ebi.ac.uk/europepmc).

LIFECYCLE

active · reviewed 2026-10-02 · corrections 0

New PaintSB-0069↗

Permanent identifier smellbook:claim:emissions-in-newly-painted-homes · Graph record (JSON)

Dataset history In the SmellBook dataset since the dataset release of 2026-10-05 · sha256 d10c2deef978.