Contaminant
Generation rate (before the increment)
Generation rate(after the 50% increment)
CH
2
O (cooking) (mg/s)
0.004
0.006
CH
2
O (heating) (mg/s)
0.04
0.06
222
Rn (Bq/h)
12,000
18,000
Table 2:
Generation rates of radon and formaldehyde before and after a virtual 50% increase (column 3) from their baseline values (column 2).