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Answer by Mark for Are laundry detergent and fabric softener fumes dangerous...

We don't know.When deciding if fumes are dangerous, the relevant measure is the "LC-50", the airborne concentration that is lethal to 50% of test subjects. Ingestion LD-50s are of limited value here,...

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Answer by GOATNine for Are laundry detergent and fabric softener fumes...

Not even close to dangerous enough to worry aboutI looked up the Material Safety data Sheet (MSDS) for the OSHA (United States) for a generic fabric softener. The following table is the LD50 (lethal...

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Are laundry detergent and fabric softener fumes dangerous to human health?

One of my neighbors raised the topic of toxins in the dryer effluence from our buildings' laundry rooms. That's not particularly surprising, but she claimed there was evidence that the trace toxins in...

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