Many flame retardants raise health concerns, including cancer, hormone disruption, and harmful effects on brain development.
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The CPSC did these calculations because antimony is also used in fire retardants in mattresses.
's plastic additives division, which brought on some phosphate-based flame retardants to diversify away from bromine.
The California study also factored in the mother's exposure to lead and toxic flame retardants.
The CDC plans to release a similar number for flame retardants in late December.
Melamine is commonly used in coatings and laminates, wood adhesives, fabric coatings, ceiling tiles and flame retardants.
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Other studies that are part of the same project are looking for flame retardants and pesticides, for example.
One-third of its sales come from bromine-based products, especially the flame retardants that keep DVD players from catching fire.
European customers want to replace tetrabrom with nonhalogenated, or more ozone-layer-friendly, flame retardants.
Great Lakes produces bromine-based flame retardants for plastic resins, polymer additives, fine chemicals for drug production and swimming pool chemicals.
For example, Apple led the industry in removing harmful toxins such as brominated flame retardants (BFRs) and polyvinyl chloride (PVC).
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However, the Chicago Tribune series discredited most, if not all, of the experts who have supported the need for flame retardants.
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Greenpeace wants to see companies eliminate the use of hazardous substances such as polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame retardants, antimony, beryllium, and phthalates.
There is no data in this study that indicate that the levels of flame retardants found would cause any human health problems.
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Among those: eliminating polyvinyl chloride and brominated flame retardants from all its products by 2009, and removing mercury and arsenic from its products' displays.
Both the iMac and Mac mini include PVC-free components and cables, contain no brominated flame retardants, and use highly recyclable materials and material-efficient packaging designs.
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Indeed, one recent analysis, using data from a National Institute of Justice arson study, showed flame retardants in upholstered furniture can provide valuable escape time.
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Flame retardants, which are found in textiles, computer casings, sofa foam and other household items, have been shown to interfere with thyroid hormone, essential for healthy brain development.
The paper successfully unveiled the Citizens for Fire Safety Institute, which had long advocated for flame retardants and posed as a nonprofit public interest group, as a front group funded by flame retardant manufacturers.
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First, electronic waste is currently hazardous waste in that it contains lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants etc, which are integrally mixed into components and cannot therefore be easily separated from the non-hazardous components.
Public health advocates maintain that the health risks from exposure to chemical flame retardants is higher than that of fire, and point out that the chemicals are often used on products that pose little fire risk.
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American industry and government had also expressed concern that the recycling requirements would put non-EU based producers at a disadvantage, and that the substance ban particularly as regards flame retardants could lower the safety of such products.
Finalists: Patricia Callahan, Sam Roe and Michael Hawthorne of the Chicago Tribune for their exposure of manufacturers that imperil public health by continuing to use toxic fire retardants in household furniture and crib mattresses, triggering reform efforts at the state and national level, and Alexandra Zayas of the Tampa Bay Times, St.
The Industrial Products segment produces flame retardants (FR) and a variety of bromine compounds as well as other chemicals based primarily on rich mineral resources found in the Dead Sea, and the Performance Products segment is a phosphate powerhouse that produces a number of downstream products for food and industrial applications, offering solutions for the food, cleaning products, fire safety, coatings and electronics industries.
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