Kentucky environmental attorney Sanders says complaints over defective Chinese drywall causes CPSC to issue preliminary report.

After receiving complaints from 180 consumers from 13 states and the District of Columbia related to adverse health symptoms or certain metal corrosion problems in their homes related to drywall imported from China, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) has issued a report on the Chinese imported drywall situation. The report is all of eight pages in length, and asks far more questions than it answers.

The majority of the reports to the CPSC have come from consumers residing in Florida while others have come from consumers in Louisiana, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, California, Washington, Wyoming, the District of Columbia, Arizona, and Tennessee. Consumers largely report that their homes were built in 2006 to 2007, when an unprecedented increase in new construction occurred in part due to natural disasters occurring in of 2004 and 2005.

Common complaints of imported drywall include:
• “rotten egg”-smell within their homes from the imported drywall.
• health concerns such as irritated and itchy eyes and skin, difficulty in breathing, persistent cough, bloody noses, runny noses, recurrent headaches, sinus infection, and asthma attacks.
• blackened and corroded metal components in their homes and the frequent replacement of components in air conditioning units.

The report is at: http://www.cpsc.gov/drywall.pdf