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Laser Printers can be harmful
Author: Phil CogarPublished: 3rd August 2007
Hazard to your health or just another phone mast scare?
The researchers carried out the tests on more then 60 machines in an open-plan office environment in downtown Brisbane over the course of a continuously monitored 48 hour period.
Air-monitoring devices placed inside the office measured a five fold increase in the amount of toner particles in the air during working hours when compared to off hours.
The concern about the amount of toner particles in the air is over the size of the particles. With the majority of the particles being less than 0.1 micrometer in diameter, this means that they can easily enter your bloodstream after being absorbed through your lungs.
Don't fret just yet though as it has yet to be determined if there are any carcinogens in the toner particles themselves. Further studies will need to be conducted in order to find out if that laser printer you sit beside of at work is as bad as cigarette smoke.
So, do you think this is just another mobile phone mast health scare or should we really be concerned about it? Let us know your thoughts over in the forums or in the comments section below.
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Lets all take bets as to when someone tries to convinces us that H20 is evil and we should all stop consuming it.
Ha. :D Someone already does that... ;)
http://www.dhmo.org/
http://www.msu.edu/user/dynicrai/physics/H2O.htm
Then again it might be for nothing. At the place where I work there's a guy who's been inhaling poisonous acidic fumes for 15 years and he's still alive and well.
but it doesn't actually so how much toner is in the air in the office, just that it increase 5 fold during the day
so it could be there is 1PPM normally and in office hours there are 5PPM
It also doesn't say how dangerous they are, or what effect it might have - but laser printers have been around a long time, and in use in offices for a long time, and i don't know any complaints of the effects ....
Don't the guys next-door help you out with news?
http://i107.photobucket.com/albums/m313/arkanrais/foodcops_medical.gif
If anything were to kill me, it'd be the horrid noxious printing chemicals I use 5 days/week for the past dozen years. Now THERE'S a way to go! Death by Mineral-Spirits Ignition!
I also think that the pic in the article should actually be a laser printer rather than an inkjet, but that's just me being picky :p
I'd still rather have a laser than my crappy inkjet, no matter how fast they get, they won't be anywhere near as good as a laser printer.
It's a printer. :p
It's a bit hard to find royalty free images of a laser printer (trust me, I looked for fricken ages) and I don't think my 1.3MP phone camera would do the job even though I had a laser printer beside of me.
I'll do better next time, I promise.
Most people tend to think that using mobile phones are harmless too; having a 2 minute conversation in a mobile phone results in our brain waves getting disturbed for about 2 weeks....
...and on that note; How often, and for how long do you use your mobile phone? Do the maths, I take it your findings will be somewhat of a chocker.
Using a mobile phone hasn’t killed you either I presume? So don’t go making the assumption that a scanner wouldn’t be harmless on the basis of you being alive....
...and on that note; perhaps it's about time we start keeping an open mind to the accurate information, rather then always soaking up the misinformation?, the noise so to speak? just a thought, thats all.
Fact: the world would also be such a better and safer place if we extended, held on, and executed that thought! make of that statment as you please.
Disturbed in what way? Is it actually harmful? Is there even a single confirmed case of a significant health problem being caused by mobile phone use?
Methinks you need to practice what you preach about misinformation.
Mobile Phones disturb our brain waves frequency, with their frequency. (Causes people do get tired, causes headaches, disturbs our concentration [not referring to when driving] to name three)
What do you think? I happen to believe so, and many with me. If you only view scientifically findings as valid, seek and you shall find.
Those provided to the public, or those not provided to the public? And no, I’m not being a conspiracy theorist here. Cancer is believed to be related to mobile phone use, to name one. Parents are now (over here in Sweden) actually recommended, not to allow their young children to use mobile phones. I view it as a sign of accurate information finally is getting thru all the noise of misinformation.
A very interesting reply and approach by your part. A few questions though, Do you think that those Australian scientists work and findings will A: be noticed and financed more? B: disappear in the noise of misinformation? C: do you view it as misinformation?
cheers.
Your point is most certainly as accurate as your observation, but; couldn’t it be because both patients and doctors haven’t received the information, not knowing that mobile phone radiation is harmful; as a consequence the doctors don’t include it into their equation either, since they in turn…... If you think about this, how many of us are using mobile phones on a daily basis, for how many years have we used them, and so on. Wouldn’t it be safe to say then, that we don’t know how we would feel without being subjected to this mobile phone radiation? What I meant by that statement (or point) is that there are different degrees of harmful, and what causes headaches, loss of concentration and tiredness also can occur without being subjected to the radiation, which most likely also makes it more difficult for those scientists (that has proven that its harmful) to get to voice their opinion After all, we all experience these problems from time to time eh, so why should we listen to you telling us that its harmful, just shut them up and its over with approach, everyone have headaches and down the road it goes. But people are experiencing these problems (symptoms) much more often today and it’s a concern.
I find this topic as interesting as I find its core disturbing, unfortunately though, I’m hard pressed on time, my work load and its schedule is immense, I will therefore have to get back to the second part of your post as soon as I can, I would very much like to give you my take (view) on it.
Cheers.
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Quoted for truth (if not so quoted for my philosophical view) oh mate, lets not forget to include the Swedish minors too as well as all others.;)