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Flame Retardants & Car Seats: when parents do everything right and it is still wrong.

It is time for companies to do right by all of our children and provide truly NON-TOXIC products for our children. Items such as car seats are some of the products that are commonly on the toxic treadmill.

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Schumer bill would phase out toxic flame retardants

Ten toxic chemicals to be banned in furniture and children’s products This week, U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) unveiled legislation to ban ten toxic flame retardant chemicals from use in upholstered furniture and children’s products. His bill would also create a process to examine and regulate other similar chemicals. Flame retardants are often added to foam […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: cancer, Congress, couches, developmental disabilities, firefighters, flame retardants, foam, furniture, Liz Hitchcock, plastics, safer chemicals, schumer, Senate, chuck schumer, cushions, upholstered furniture

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Get your foam products tested for flame retardants

The well-respected research team at Duke University has created a new program that lets you test, for the first time, products in your home for toxic flame retardants.

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