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Carpet Health

Carpet is a preferred and widely used floor covering associated with minimal complaints. There is approximately 150 billion square feet currently installed in over 100 million buildings. About 1.2 billion square yards of carpet are installed every year. Complaints per square yard of carpet installed are extremely small. Yet there are many claims throughout the media and general public that carpet contributes to unsanitary IAQ. These claims are not supported in the scientific literature. Research to date, some going back over 30 years, consistently shows carpet to be a safe and healthy floor covering.

Wool Carpet is made from a renewable resource, is naturally flame resistant, durable, biodegradable and provides excellent indoor environmental quality.

Some of the carpets enhancing features are general comfort, warmth, noise control, glare reduction, and protection from slips and falls.

Recurring reviews of the scientific literature find no evidence that properly maintained carpet poses a risk to public health. Study after study have been unable to link carpet to adverse health effects. In fact, where the air quality was measured, air over carpet was time and again less polluted than air over hard floors.

Carpet has been looked at by the health sciences community for over decades and has never associated new or properly maintained carpet with adverse health effects. The fact is that carpet has been effectively used with no problems in many sensitive environments such as nursing homes, hospitals, and schools!