INVESTIGATION OF IMPORTED DRYWALL STATUS UPDATES

I. Overview

This update describes new developments in the ongoing investigation of imported drywall and supplements the previous reports provided to the Committee:

Since the August report, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) has received an additional 382 incident reports related to drywall, raising the total number of incident reports to 1192. We also had reports from one new state, South Carolina, making a total of 24 states and the District of Columbia where problem drywall has been reported. The majority of the reports continue to be from Florida, Louisiana, and Virginia. The focus of the federal drywall team has remained on pursuing the scientific bases of this problem, through the several studies described in previous reports, and tracing the chain of commerce of the drywall. Highlights this past month:

• conducted investigative visit to China including meetings with government officials,
• completed principal field work for 50 home indoor air sampling program,
• coordinated a rapid state and federal response to allegations of radioactive phosphogypsum in Chinese drywall,
• followed-up with more than 500 consumers to update the data submitted in their initial incident reports and
• completed 75 “in-depth investigations” with another 20 in progress.

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