Paint debris

[heun817]

We recently moved from the US to a flat in Surrey area and the building is fairly new. (Less then 10 years old). I have been spotting white paint debris in the kitchen counter area near the wall, and I am wondering whether this is normal in most homes in the UK.
It isn't much, just four to five powder bits in one day, but still a bit concerned since those paint powder bits could land on our dishes and food.

Hi - no that's not normal. I am also struggling to imagine what it is and where exactly it's coming from. Paint doesn't usually come off in heaps of powder ?! Is it the ceiling perhaps, is it plaster coming off from somewhere?

Powdering paint dust is usually caused by 3 reasons

. Damp coming through usually there will be a border of darker paint like a tide mark around the powdery section. It powders up when the damp dries out and goes in cycles. Or it can be salts coming through with the water.
. Poor paint prep on newly plastered walls it can chalk up and come off as fine dust. But more usually peels off in sheets.
. Very old paint which has had UV light break down.

Or in rarer circumstances it’s modern paint painted over old distemper paint but you’ll only really find this in older period properties.

Certainly not a normal thing or a thing to be expected.