Give Flame Retardants The Boot: How to Minimize Your Exposure
Rather than produce fire-safe cigarettes, a clandestine group of cigarette lobbyists organized the National Association of State Fire Marshals, which over the last several decades has successfully pushed an agenda to enforce the use of flame-retardants in many items found throughout our homes including furniture, carpeting and electronics. This has led to extremely volatile chemicals such as PBDEs (polybrominated diphenylethers) producing toxic dust that can make us extremely sick. With all that we know about chemicals including pesticides and the plastic polymer, bisphenol-A, there are more reasons than ever to make efforts to minimize flame-retardant exposure in your home.
