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THE CLEAN-UP PLAN

One of the greatest concerns about the Attack! 2000 incident is how best to clean it up. The floors in the mechanical rooms where the glue remover was applied were made of wood, which might account for the persistent strong chemical odor in spite of the fact that Attack! 2000 is an odorless product. According to Skimina, “The material was liberally applied to a porous surface.” Attack! 2000 is only meant to be applied to concrete surfaces. Additionally, maintenance and mechanical rooms are notorious for chemical spills of one type or another. “Maintenance storage areas usually have a long history of spills,” said Dr. Ginsburg. “You don’t know what’s causing the smell.” There is always the chance that the strong odor which has resulted from this accident was caused not by Attack! 2000, a “no-odor” product, but by a reaction between Attack! 2000 and the chemicals the wood floors were treated with previously, or another chemical spilled in the mechanical rooms at some prior time.

There has been confusion about the source of the smell among staff and students. Many were under the impression that the smell was caused by chlorine bleach. One employee who left work on Tuesday, March 21, before she received an MSDS and before the air quality tests were finished, said, “I missed work because I was feeling sick from the chemicals, but when I came back I went down to work at the fifth floor right away. It was incredibly confusing. Nobody was outright about the chemical.” She left to work on the fifth floor six days before the administration moved her department.

May 2006

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