Florida to test air quality in homes with Chinese drywall

Florida officials will soon begin air-quality tests in homes to determine whether fumes emitted from Chinese-made drywall can make people sick, the state Health Department said Friday. Agency spokesman Doc Kokol said the tests, which he hopes will begin in several weeks, are complex and have never been done before. An Associated Press review of shipping records found more than 540 million pounds of plasterboard was imported from China between 2004 and 2008 to meet U.S. demand during the national housing boom. Hundreds of people nationwide are now complaining that the material emits fumes that make them sick. They claim it also corrodes copper pipes, blackens jewelry and silverware and ruins air conditioners.

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