We spend far too much time in our homes and especially sleeping in bed to be spending it in a toxic filled home, on
flame retardant sprayed mattresses and bed linens.
Not exact matches
Because the
flame retardants are
sprayed on rather than chemically bonded to the product, the molecules migrate out of the products and collect in household dust, where they get on our hands and, inevitably, into our mouths and bodies, says Philip Landrigan, MD, a pediatrician and dean for global health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Mattresses made before 2007 were typically not
sprayed with PBDEs or most other
flame retardant chemicals, and may be safer.
As well, a character
sprays himself and another man in the face with a
flame -
retardant aerosol, causing extreme pain.