How Toner Can Affect Your Body and Health

Again and again one reads that are contained inBesides the fact that you should open a toner of
toners sometimes harmful and carcinogeniccourse in no case "to the skin or mucous membranes
substances. How it looks real and what can we do toto reach the harmful ingredients in the toner in the form
protect yourself from these substances?of fine particles are generated during the printing
Basically, a fact mentioned repeatedly Toner heavy asprocess, into the bloodstream of humans.
iron, chromium, cadmium or nickel. Also volatile organicFor this reason it is particularly important that the printer
compounds such as styrene, toluene or benzene, areand copier in a company or an office in a separate
found again and again. Moreover, are contained in aroom will be accommodated with a good ventilation
toner organotin compounds and azo dyes.system. In this way, the ingredients of the toner to the
Especially before the organotin dibutyltin and tributyltinemployees can not hurt, because the copy room is
be warned, because they are among the ultra poisonsentered in each case only briefly to pick up the copies
and come in more and more toner is used. Dibutyltinor prints.
has a direct impact on the immune system, it slowsIn the offices where the employees are sitting all day,
down the immune system and can eliminate ithowever, the air is unloaded.
completely, even in larger quantities.If someone works in an office, in which there are
Tributyltin affects the hormonal balance of humansmany printers and copiers, it is important that
and lowers estrogen levels. This leads ultimately to thesupervisors and managers about the harmful effects
fact that the masculinized body.caused by heating of toner, inform and seek together
But exactly how these pollutants move from the tonerto find a spatial solution to the problem.
in the human body?