Plywood alergy?

[Malcolm Timbers]

I have been working with plywood of several varieties the last several days and I got some dust blown into my eyes and they are hurting. I am wondering what is in that dust?

I think one sheet of plywood is from Asia and the core wood is unknown. It looks like pine and is light weight but open grained looking at the end grain.

I really hate plywood but it saves a lot of time on some projects.

[craig carlson]

HI,

God knows what's in the glue that they use.

Craig

[Robert Simmons]

The glue is probably respnsible for your problem. Some of the glues use formaldehyde as a polymerizing agent, not as much as in the past but it's still there in many laminated products.

Robert