> The problem is not with VOCs, it's with acetic acid. See
>
> http://www.conchologistsofamerica.org/articles/y2002/0209_callomon.asp

Um. I believe the problem is that formaldehyde is used in the manufacture
of particleboard (coarse to MDF but excluding hardboard), and that formic,
not acetic, acid is a breakdown product of this.

Organic acids are VOCs.

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