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New Study Looks At The Potential Carcinogenicity Of 3D Printing (hackaday.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (3 children)

There was that video from a few months ago from... Prints with layers I think? That looked at the actual particulate and volatile counts and found that PLA actually gave off very little? Other plastics were much worse.

So remember that the particle counts matter as much as the danger of the particles.

(Disclaimer, that was a video, not a peer reviewed scientific paper)

[–] Kushan 16 points 2 months ago

Made with Layers (Thomas Sanladerer)

[–] scutiger 9 points 2 months ago

There was also a video a while back from one maker channel where the guy said that he got some type of nasty poisoning from breathing in fumes from ABS printing. Fortunately ABS isn't as popular of a material as it once was, now that there are better alternatives, but I'm sure many of them still put out some nasty fumes.