Asthma study sparks debate about safety of cooking with gas

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New research that links cooking with natural gas to around 12 percent of childhood asthma cases has sparked debate about the health risks of kitchen stoves, as well as calls in the United States for stepped-up regulation. | AFP

It is based on a calculation of the risk of developing asthma in homes with a gas stove from a 2013 review of 41 previous studies.

A report released Monday used the same calculation to link 12 percent of childhood asthma to gas cooking in the European Union. This year, CLASP will collect air quality measurements from 280 kitchens across Europe in a bid to confirm the results.Richard Trumka Jr, a commissioner at the Consumer Product Safety Commission, tweeted on Monday that the agency “will consider all approaches to regulation”.

Brady Seals, a manager at the Rocky Mountain Institute and co-author of the study, rebuffed the lobby group’s statement.‘Not clean’ Daniel Pope, a professor of global public health at the UK’s University of Liverpool, said that the link between asthma and pollution from gas stoves had yet to be definitively proven and that further research was needed.

 

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AFP The motivation for releasing this information is suspect. It's to advance the climate change cult agenda. In the third world like PH, indoor air pollution is many times worse with wood stove, yet we live.

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