This isn't really news in California.<p>I remember fully twenty years ago bakeries bitching about air pollution rules. The air quality people were coming down on them for ethanol emissions from baking bread.<p>Even before that Los Angles put heavy restrictions on auto paint shops use of solvent based lacquer. Other bit was that in Mexico City the largest source of VOC's was/used to be refilling propane tanks.
Personal care and cleaning products. Wow. That's some awesome consequences of not bearing smelly armpits.<p>The trichloroethylene cleaners are particularly nasty to people. But the particular matter is really bad. No aircon filter in normal use is hospital grade. I don't think we're going to avoid this stuff except by stopping using it.