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How to Reduce Your Exposure to Toxic Flame Retardant in Your Mattress

How to Reduce Your Exposure to Toxic Flame Retardant in Your Mattress

1. The 2007 open flame mattress flammability standard, i.e. 16 CFR 1633, is draconian. There is one exception available. Almost no natural organic material can take open flame with temperature reaching 2000 celsius for 10 minutes, without itself burning out. Two common relatively fire-resistant material, wool and latex, do not even stand a chance. Wool [...]

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Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part IV–Final

12. Don’t Regulators Know About All These? What are they doing? Yes, They do. They know well flame retardants are toxic and sleepers get a heavy dose of those everyday from sleeping on their mattresses. What they do is downplaying the risk and mandating more flame retardant be added. Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC) did a [...]

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Antimony, PBDEs, Boric Acid. Wait, My Mattress is Soaked in Them? Part III

10. Next, Say Hi to Older Brother of Arsenic, Antimony Born into the same family of chemical elements, antimony shares a lot of arsenic’s chemical properties, including its toxicity to organism. However, it is less potent and also much less common in the environment than arsenic[1].  Thus it does not have as a prominent profile [...]

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