Studies found that the smoke emitted from some forms of surgery was toxic and in a few cases contained infectious materials like bacteria or viruses
Working in the construction, textile, ceramic, logging, and food processing industries can cause people to be exposed to substances like wood dust, formaldehyde, asbestos, nickel, and other chemicals
As the study from NIST notes, the new standard, does provide a performance baseline to ensure newer alarms that need to meet the more stringent flaming and smoldering fire tests are not overly sensitive to nuisance sources. So while there may be little difference in performance between old and new alarms with regard to cooking alarms, no ground is lost as the devices become more and more sensitive to burning polyurethane foam
When used like the average person, that percentage drops to 76% to 88%