{"id":151,"date":"2007-08-15T06:30:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2007-08-15T06:30:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T13:30:46","slug":"20070815-office-printers-may-pose-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/15\/20070815-office-printers-may-pose-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/08\/15 Office Printers May Pose Health Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>drewmoney writes <em>&#8220;The BBC reports on new findings which may have implications for the way offices are laid out. According to an Australian study, around a third of modern printer models release &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6923915.stm\">potentially dangerous levels of toner<\/a> into the air&#8217; as they are completing a job. &#8216;Almost one-third were found to emit ultra-tiny particles of toner-like material, so small that they can infiltrate the lungs and cause a range of health problems from respiratory irritation to more chronic illnesses. Conducted in an open-plan office, the test revealed that particle levels increased five-fold during working hours, a rise blamed on printer use. &#8216;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>drewmoney writes &#8220;The BBC reports on new findings which may have implications for the way offices are laid out. According to an Australian study, around a third of modern printer models release &#8216;potentially dangerous levels of toner into the air&#8217; as they are completing a job. &#8216;Almost one-third were found to emit ultra-tiny particles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}