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What are flame retardants? Flame retardant chemicals are added to products including cars, furniture foam, electronics, children’s products, and building insulation to meet flammability standards. Unfortunately, these standards are often poor predictors of real-life fire risks and lead to the unnecessary use of these toxic chemicals. Some flame retardants are associated with elevated cancer ...
The new standard provides for better fire safety in furniture and children’s products without the need for flame retardant chemicals. In 2015 the Institute and our colleagues petitioned the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to ban products, including furniture, containing any organohalogen flame retardant.
Flame retardant chemicals TB117-2013 can be met without flame retardant chemicals. What are the benefits of meeting TB117-2013 with components free of flame retardant chemicals? Consumers: Although the new standard can be met without flame retardants, it does NOT ban their use.
Flame retardant producers have long supported new international requirements for the use of high levels of flame retardants in the outer casings of computers, TVs, and other electronics. Our Institute’s efforts led to the rejection of such “candle standard” proposals in 2008, 2012, 2013, and 2014, and prevented the unnecessary use of hundreds of millions of pounds of toxic flame ...
Aerial fire retardants: It’s raining red By Avery Lindeman | A wet winter followed by record heat this summer have contributed to one of California’s worst-ever fire seasons. In the month of October alone, thousands of structures have been destroyed in fires in Northern California as more than ten separate wildfires have burned across the state. Firefighters have literally ...
