Due to the furniture's formaldehyde content exceeding the standard, Ms. Cao sued the manufacturer in court, and the Intermediate People's Court recently made a final judgment: the manufacturer must return the payment and appraisal fee to Ms. Cao, and compensate her with 1600 yuan.
Ms. Cao bought a cabinet at a home plaza on February 11, 2004. She said that although she smelled an unpleasant odor from the cabinet at the time, the salesperson repeatedly assured her that the furniture was absolutely qualified. Therefore, she believed this statement and took the cabinet home...
Citizen Mr. Yin moved into his new house and ordered a set of children's furniture from a wood factory. Two years later, Mr. Yin was diagnosed with leukemia, suspecting it was caused by excessive formaldehyde in the new furniture. After inspection by quality supervision department, the formaldehyde release amount in the drawers of the children's furniture exceeded the standard. Mr. Yin then sued the wood factory in court, claiming compensation for medical expenses totaling 426,000 yuan. Yesterday, this case was publicly tried in Jing'an Court, and the court ruled in favor of Mr. Yin's defeat...
Because it has drawn widespread attention, "indoor air pollution" caused by house decoration is gradually decreasing. However, when purchasing furniture, people still pay more attention to factors such as price, style, and function rather than environmental protection. Hazardous furniture often hides in newly decorated "comfortable nests"...
On June 23rd, Oriental Net reported: The national mandatory standard of "Furniture User Manual" was officially implemented on October 1, 2004. According to national standards, all furniture should be accompanied by a user manual which must specify the furniture name, style specifications, materials used, applicable environmental conditions, purpose and application scope, structural characteristics and technical features, usage and maintenance, troubleshooting, precautions, after-sales service matters, product structure diagrams, etc., and clearly inform consumers. Recently, journalists found during visits to some furniture markets that despite the standard being implemented for over a year, the "Furniture User Manual" has not been given much importance in smaller scale malls...
On August 9th, the Mawei District Court of Fuzhou City, Fujian Province announced the verdict of China's first case where death was caused by formaldehyde exceeding the standard due to new house decoration. Due to serious formaldehyde excess from the decoration company and floor sales company, Mr. Lin's young daughter from Mawei District passed away from leukemia after moving into the newly decorated house. The court's first-instance ruling determined that the two companies bear equal joint liability and jointly compensated the plaintiff with more than 170,000 RMB. This is so far the first domestic case of death caused by formaldehyde pollution in new houses.
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