Sentences with phrase «flame retardants at»

Similar highly fluorinated chemicals are contained in flame retardants at airports and on military bases.

This means that there's no trace of chemical materials, neither the use of chemical flame retardants at all.

Not exact matches

For instance, the researchers didn't look at other contaminants, like the effects of endocrine disruptors, flame retardants and pesticides on human health and early deaths.

If you have beautiful new hardwood floors like I do you will want to protect them with something like Trimaco flame retardant surface protection available at Grainger.

A recent HBO Documentary entitled Toxic Hot Seat took an in - depth look at chemical flame retardants and their potential to make the public sick.

* Polyurethane in all of these mattresses is not at all mixed with any flame retardants or chemicals to minimize any off - gassing effects

Check the ingredients label and, if necessary, ask a worker at the store about any flame retardants the mattress includes.

However, note that Chicco self - reported flame retardant use at time of writing (though a safer flame retardant)

Then we look at how it's flame retardant and this is amazing, they use hydrated silica which is a form of sand.

We believe the only safe flame retardant is none at all, and our products meet all flammability standards without the need for flame retardant chemicals of any kind..

In another study by Hites, two new flame retardants — one of them sold as Firemaster 550 — were detected in more than half of the air samples taken at six sites along the shores of the Great Lakes, with the highest concentrations around Chicago and Cleveland.

New flame retardants also were found in 89 percent of the livers of ringer - bill gulls that breed near Lake Ontario, according to a 2012 study from researchers at the University of Quebec.

Driven by revelations of lead in children's toys, hormone - mimicking chemicals in plastic baby bottles and controversial flame - retardants in furniture, state environmental officials drafted a set of rules aimed at products with chemicals that have been linked to illness or abnormal development

SFU health sciences professor Bruce Lanphear is part of the research team that measured the levels of flame retardants, or polybrominated diphenyl ethers, (PBDEs) in 309 U.S. women at 16 weeks of pregnancy, and followed their children to the age of five.

The FIT - 5 (price tag: around $ 1,300) is a nine - pound (four - kilogram) red disk that resembles a land mine and is deployed like a grenade: A firefighter pulls its cord and tosses the disk into the area engulfed in flames; within seconds the FIT - 5 releases a wispy cloud of potassium carbonate, a flame retardant that suppresses combustion and disrupts fire at the molecular level.

Exposure to flame retardants once widely used in consumer products has been falling, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.

The researchers found that a metabolite of one commonly used organophosphate flame retardant, tris (1,3 - dichloro -2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP), occurred at levels 15 times higher in 2014 - 2015 samples than in samples from 2002 - 2003.

Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch have determined that maternal exposure to high levels of flame - retardants may be a contributing factor in preterm births.

NIEHS is now doing basic testing on at least 40 flame retardants, Birnbaum said.

A separate report, from Mark Anthony Browne on work performed at Plymouth University, shows that ingesting microplastic can also reduce the health of lugworms by delivering harmful chemicals, including hydrocarbons, antimicrobials, and flame retardants, to them.

The researchers found reduced antibodies in the frogs at levels of flame retardants commonly found in the environment.

Women with higher urinary concentrations of a common type of flame retardant had reduced likelihood of clinical pregnancy and live birth than those with lower concentrations, according to researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Brominated flame retardants are very good at preventing plastics and textiles from catching fire.

The implication is that flame retardant chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can infiltrate the placenta during pregnancy and affect thyroid hormone activity at the cellular level, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

Researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics and other institutes have also identified flame retardants as possible culprits.

Another concern is that people might have allergies to drugs like antibiotics, and endocrine disruptors like PFASs and flame retardants may produce effects at much lower doses than previously thought.

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.

Original Journal Source: E. Roze et al.Prenatal exposure to organohalogens, including brominated flame retardants, influences motor, cognitive, and behavioral performance at school age.

Publishing in Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers looked at organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs), studying the urinary concentrations of their metabolites along with outcomes of IVF treatement.

You may be able to update just the cushions with flame retardant — free foam at a local upholstery shop.

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.

So, looking at the Roszko, Schecter, and Qin results, it appears every fatty plant food will have some contamination from flame retardants, but it will be minute compared to the levels bioaccumulated in comparable fatty animal products.

For instance, instead of avoiding your off gassing furniture and toxic flame retardant mattress, get some house plants in each room to soak up the toxins... these plants will even go one step further and produce fresh air while they're at it.

But researchers at Shanghai's Institute of Ceramics are developing wallpaper that can detect fire and even act as a flame retardant.

Stapleton, an environmental chemist at Duke University, is one of the nation's leading experts on flame retardants.