Sentences with phrase «about flame retardants»
Check the ingredients label and, if necessary, ask a worker at the store about any flame retardants the mattress includes.
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His dramatic testimony about babies burned to death in furniture fires helped convince lawmakers they shouldn't scale back use of flame retardants.
If you worry about this risk, you can always choose all - natural fabrics that are flame - retardant when they fit snuggly.
My risk management skills went into overdrive when I discovered that about 80 per cent of baby gear in the United States contains fabrics and plastics that are saturated with flame retardants, formaldehyde, bisphenol A and other toxic chemicals.
After my first pregnancy, I learned about how dangerous it can be to expose my children to toxic chemicals and flame retardants during their early years.
Do you still have concerns about people's exposures to the brominated flame retardants, PBDEs?
I'm concerned about some of the plasticizers, including phthalates, and some of the flame retardants, especially the alternative ones.
«I'm concerned about some of the plasticizers, including phthalates, and some of the flame retardants, especially the alternative ones,» she said.
Spending about 100 hours each month in the air, new research shows that flight attendants fly along with some of the highest levels ever measured for some flame retardants
In a warm conference room overlooking a frozen cove, Mattingly opens her laptop and calls up my results for about 40 toxins that are present in my body at above - average levels: DDT, PCBs, flame retardants, metals, phthalates, and others.
I've previously talked about this class of chemicals in Food Sources of Flame - Retardant Chemicals.
Given that it is a building component that nobody sees and solves a flame retardant problem that few people care about, it is an admirable choice.
That 1974 chart - topper from Canada's little sparrow, Nancy White, kept running through my brain as I read about the latest study on dust bunnies that indicates that «a persistent and bioaccumulative flame retardant» known as Dechlorane Plus (more on this chemical in TreeHugger here) can be found in household dust.