Get the Facts:Toxic Flame Retardants

Toxic flame retardants are widely used in electronics, appliances, and insulation, and are linked to health effects including cancer and harm to brain ...

Toxic Flame Retardants - Safer States

Safer States allies working hand in hand with firefighters, state legislatures, community members, manufacturers and the media have caused a massive market ...

Get the Facts | Ocean Futures Society

Five Known Facts About Toxic Flame Retardants · California Laws Are Creating A Toxic Environment For The World · We Are Breathing In Toxic Dust Sitting On Our ...

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Flame Retardants

BFRs have been linked to endocrine disruption and thyroid disfunction. Older compounds have been replaced by new versions that also show toxic endocrine effects ...

Toxic flame retardants | San Francisco Estuary Institute

Flame retardant chemical additives are incorporated into consumer goods to meet flammability standards, and many have been detected in environmental matrices.

Toxic Flame Retardants Fact Sheet

Toxic chemicals known to cause cancer and other health effects are prevalent as flame retardants in standard household items like couches and ...

Flame Retardants and Your Health fact sheet

Where are flame retardants used? Since the 1970s, flame-retardant chemicals have been added to many types of products: • Furnishings, such as seating foam ...

Flame Retardants - Proposition 65 Warnings Website

Flame Retardants · A number of chemicals that have been used either as flame retardants, or to enhance the flame-retardant properties of other chemicals, are on ...

Kitchenware to toys, household items linked to toxic flame retardants

From toys to kitchenware to food takeout trays, researchers have discovered a toxic chemical banned for its link to cancer in many common household items.

Fact Sheet - Toxic-Free Future

Only two states in the U.S., Washington and New York, have banned the use of the most harmful flame retardants in electronics. Elsewhere ...

Toxic Flame Retardants | Clean Water Action

Flame retardants get into our bodies through dust and the air we breathe. They have been found in breast milk and umbilical cord blood. Flame retardant exposure ...

Black plastics found to contain harmful flame retardants | The Week

The most concerning flame retardant found was decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE), banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in ...

Flame Retardants - Green Science Policy Institute

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 ...

Toxic Flame Retardants | San Francisco Estuary Institute

Flame retardant chemical additives are incorporated into consumer goods to meet flammability standards, and many have been detected in environmental matrices.

NHTSA Urged to Get Toxic Flame Retardant Chemicals Out of Cars

Currently, to meet this standard, manufacturers add harmful flame retardant chemicals to seat foam and other materials. These include chemicals ...

Toxic flame retardants are still being used in plastics, even though t

These materials have been found to be toxic, but there's a whole range of brominated FR additives, with just a handful found to be toxic,” said Lebel. “When we ...

Phosphate Ester Flame Retardants | ToxFAQs™ | ATSDR - CDC

This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions (FAQs) about phosphate ester flame retardants. For more information, call the ATSDR ...

Common flame retardants linked to deaths from cancer in people ...

Researchers have linked flame retardants widely used in consumer products to deaths from cancer in humans for the first time, according to a ...

Flame Retardants - Environmental Working Group

These chemicals have been linked to cancer and hormone disruption, as well as deficits in motor skills, attention and IQ in children. Though the most toxic ones ...

Is Flame Retardant Toxic? | Komodo Fire Systems, Inc.

Flame retardants have been used for decades to make products less flammable. They're now found in all kinds of products, ...