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Cancer-Linked Flame Retardants Eased Out of Furniture in 2014 - Scientific American
"When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, new regulations kick into effect that may help usher in an era of less pervasive flame retardants in our home furnishings. The move caps a years-long campaign to alter regulations inextricably linked with a tobacco industry that sought to elude production of self-extinguishing cigarettes designed to limit couch fires. Deception and intrigue led to a 1970s regulation that prompted the injection of chemicals into home furniture, stemming from a distortion of scientific findings that suggested flame retardants would be more effective at reducing sofa fires than they really are. In reality, retardants provide no meaningful protection, a finding uncovered in a 2012 investigative series by The Chicago Tribune and highlighted in a recent documentary Toxic Hot Seat."
Flame retardants in consumer products are linked to health and cognitive problems - The Washington Post
"Studies in laboratory animals and humans have linked the most scrutinized flame retardants, called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, to thyroid disruption, memory and learning problems, delayed mental and physical development, lower IQ, advanced puberty and reduced fertility. Other flame retardants have been linked to cancer. At the same time, recent studies suggest that the chemicals may not effectively reduce the flammability of treated products."
EWG-Duke Study Finds Five Times As Much Cancer-Causing Fire Retardant in Children As Mothers Environmental Working Group
"Washington, D.C. – Scientists at the Environmental Working Group and Duke University have found evidence that the average level of a cancer-causing fire retardant chemical in the bodies of children tested was nearly five times the average in their mothers, according to a new report released today.
In the first published scientific study to analyze children’s exposure to TDCIPP, a fire retardant chemical and recognized carcinogen, researchers tested the urine of 22 mothers and 26 children. A chemical called BDCIPP, a “metabolite” formed when TDCIPP breaks down in the body, was found in the urine of all those tested. The average level of BDCIPP in children one to five years old was 4.9 times that of the average in their mothers. In the most extreme case, a child had 23 times the level of BDCIPP measured in the mother."
"When the clock strikes midnight on December 31, new regulations kick into effect that may help usher in an era of less pervasive flame retardants in our home furnishings. The move caps a years-long campaign to alter regulations inextricably linked with a tobacco industry that sought to elude production of self-extinguishing cigarettes designed to limit couch fires. Deception and intrigue led to a 1970s regulation that prompted the injection of chemicals into home furniture, stemming from a distortion of scientific findings that suggested flame retardants would be more effective at reducing sofa fires than they really are. In reality, retardants provide no meaningful protection, a finding uncovered in a 2012 investigative series by The Chicago Tribune and highlighted in a recent documentary Toxic Hot Seat."
Flame retardants in consumer products are linked to health and cognitive problems - The Washington Post
"Studies in laboratory animals and humans have linked the most scrutinized flame retardants, called polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, to thyroid disruption, memory and learning problems, delayed mental and physical development, lower IQ, advanced puberty and reduced fertility. Other flame retardants have been linked to cancer. At the same time, recent studies suggest that the chemicals may not effectively reduce the flammability of treated products."
EWG-Duke Study Finds Five Times As Much Cancer-Causing Fire Retardant in Children As Mothers Environmental Working Group
"Washington, D.C. – Scientists at the Environmental Working Group and Duke University have found evidence that the average level of a cancer-causing fire retardant chemical in the bodies of children tested was nearly five times the average in their mothers, according to a new report released today.
In the first published scientific study to analyze children’s exposure to TDCIPP, a fire retardant chemical and recognized carcinogen, researchers tested the urine of 22 mothers and 26 children. A chemical called BDCIPP, a “metabolite” formed when TDCIPP breaks down in the body, was found in the urine of all those tested. The average level of BDCIPP in children one to five years old was 4.9 times that of the average in their mothers. In the most extreme case, a child had 23 times the level of BDCIPP measured in the mother."
