September 29, 2008

MacBook Pro Exhaust May Contain Toxic Fumes


A French website MacBidouille is reporting that Analytika Labs has done testing, using multiple sensors, over a period of eight days on MacBook Pro. The lab collected the air circulated and exhausted by cooling fans in MacBook Pro. By doing gas chromatography and mass spectrometry on the air sample the lab found out that the exhaust air contained propanal, benzene, ethanone, isobenzofurandione, propanone and acetic acid. Most of the chemicals mentioned are considered irritants, but benzene has been found to elevate cancer probability in workers exposed to just 10 parts per million, according to the American Cancer Society. Read More

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