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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.
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 ...
Do they provide a fire safety benefit? Our peer-reviewed paper, Flame retardants in building insulation: a case for re-evaluating building codes, concluded that flame retardants in building insulation do not provide a fire safety benefit for many applications.
