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Byne's Disease is clearly a potential problem, but has anyone done research onto ways of minimising the effects of VOCs (perhaps active charcoal absorption), because wooden cabinets provide more stable temperature and humidity conditions (especially in the
more energy conscious world) and they protect better against fire than do most steel cabinets? Any thoughts?</div>
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I agree that the risk of Byne’s Disease from cotton alone is far lower than that from wooden storage cases. Cotton is cellulose, but the mass of that material per cubic inch is far lower compared with wood. We remove cotton where we find it in the collections,
but in terms of strategy have concentrated more on replacing wood and wood-based materials like Masonite and plywood.
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