The toner production defects

As early as 11 years ago, a study published in the lancet, a Spanish scientist, has warned that dust from the drum of an electrostatic copying machine can cause lung disease. 1 years later, the United States environmental research agency Epa also concluded that. In 2003, German Dortmund medical labor protection agency were a test, mice inhaled ink drum dust. Soon, test in the lung is long out of the tumor. However, the Bonn Institute of labor protection also conducted a similar experiment with rats and guinea pigs, but did not find abnormal phenomena. However, these two trials have found that animals inhaled ink drum release of fine particles, will produce a kind of inflammatory reaction". Unfortunately, so far, people in the instructions on the use of these devices also did not see any toner containing harmful substances.

On the point of view, the production of office equipment companies rarely have their own products under the daily operating conditions of a variety of detection. Generally speaking, ink drum used toner in addition to containing carbon black, iron oxide and polyester outer, also contains many metal dust, such as nickel, cobalt and harmful to the human body mercury and different content of products vary. In addition, toner also contain known carcinogens, such as benzene, formaldehyde and styrene. Color printer toner is addicted to drinking, smoking, etc., such as tributyltin Tributyltin. A few millionths of a gram is can endanger the human hormone secretion, resulting from a decline in sperm counts in men and female sterility. Germany banned the use of the material in the shipbuilding industry in 2003.