In a paper published on line on May 18, 2011 in Environmental Science & Technology, Heather Stapleton and colleagues found that 80% of baby products tested contained toxic or untested flame retardant chemicals. Foam from 100 changing table pads, nursing pillows, car seats, and other baby products were tested. Here are a few of the findings:
• 36% of the baby products contained the same cancer-causing Tris removed from baby pajamas...
This Monday at a hearing of the Senate Business and Professions Committee , eight California Senators – Curren Price, Bill Emerson, Lou Correa, Ed Hernandez, Gloria Negrete McLeod, Juan Vargas, Mimi Walters, and Mark Wyland – vote- “No” to Mark Leno’s SB 147 to give consumers the choice to purchase fire safe furniture without toxic flame retardantds.
On the Leno side were 30 eloquent voices of fire fighters, scientists, physicians, and...
Mark Leno introduced the Consumer Choice Fire Safety Act February 1, 2011. This Senate bill, SB147, calls for the development of an alternative furniture flammability standard that will increase fire safety and can be met without flame retardant chemicals.
CHE Alaska call: Health Hazards of Toxic Flame
Retardants in Everyday Products
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/wg_calls/8627
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
10 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Eastern
Recently, 210 prominent scientists from 30 countries signed a first-ever consensus statement- the San...
Dear all,
There has been excellent press coverage of research from Arnie Schecter and his colleagues finding high levels of a flame retardant in butter.
http://news.discovery.com/human/flame-retardants-butter.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1
Please see the...
Dear friends,
You might like to check out my TEDx talk at
TEDxGreatPacificGarbagePatch - Arlene Blum - Plastic Pollution In Our Homes
Scientist Arlene Blum speaks about the connection between plastic pollution and flame retardants.
About TEDx, x = independently organized event In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized...
Dear friend,
Please find below significant research of 2010 linking adverse reproductive, neurological, thyroid, and carcinogenic heath effects with flame retardants used in furniture, baby products, electronics, and buildings.
These findings should help facilitate 2011 changes in policy and practice to reduce the health burden from these chemicals. Please see below for information on how you can support these changes.
...Dear all,
I recently met with Paul Anastas who heads EPA's Office of Research and Development and is considered the "Father of Green Chemistry" to suggest research ideas on the impacts of halogenated flame retardants in buildings.
Paul suggested instead reading his new paper authored by by Voutchkova, Osimitz, and Anastas, Toward a Comprehensive Molecular Design Framework for Reduced Hazard (Chemical Reviews2010, 110, 5845–5882...
The Green Science Policy Institute has three project updates to share:
(1) We are conducting a new research study on the association between the TB117 label and the flame retardants present in couches. To find out if there are halogenated flame retardants in your couch, please consider joining our Couch Study. Contact Michelle Gabriel
Dear all,
Please see below recently e-published papers about the brominated flame retardant pentaBDE's possible connection to autism and also high levels in California women's adipose tissue. PentaBDE was primarily used to treat foam in furniture and baby products to meet the California furniture flammability standard Technical Bulletin 117. Even though pentaBDE has been banned, furniture containing it will stay in use for decades...
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