One kit tests over a hundred objects in your environment. You merely put a drop of the solution on papers, furnishings, carpet, mattresses, wallboard, clothes, textiles, draperies, or just sitting on the glass slide to measure ambient air. If it turns dark purple, it has picked up over 10 ppm (parts per million) of formaldehyde and is an object that is contributing to your total load. That amount of formaldehyde emission is putting a strain on the body's detoxification pathways. And if they are strained, then the ability to detoxify everyday chemicals that can cause the genetic changes that initiate cancer and other diseases, can occur more readily.

Once you know which objects are contributing to your total load, you are better equipped to make some intelligent choices about your environment. And when you know what the worst culprits are, it spares you the aggravation of getting rid of items that are too dear, too costly, or too difficult to remove. Even for general health reasons, it is preferable to know which objects may be contributing to current or future ill health. For formaldehyde sensitivity can begin at any time and manifest as merely mood swings, depression, migraines, or asthma, arthritis, brain fog, eye irritation, cough, nasal congestion, weakened immune system, the beginning of multiple new allergies, fatigue, fibromyalgia, and much more.

As well, objects that are outgassing too much formaldehyde are often outgassing other zenobiotics (foreign chemicals). So by knowing which ones to get rid of, you will often be simultaneously lowering your load to toluene, zylene, benzene, and other common household and office chemicals which are disease promoting.