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Ashley Furniture Eliminates Toxic Flame Retardants in Furniture! (UPDATE)

In the last few years awareness about the toxicity in flame retardant chemicals in furniture has grown tremendously. Ashley is phasing out toxic flame retardants in their furniture. But they haven’t disclosed when these chemicals will be eliminated.

Filed Under: Mind the Store Tagged With: Ashley Furniture, buying furniture, cancer, chemicals, Chicago Tribune, Customers, doctors, environmental, environmentalists, EPA, exposure, families, flame retardants, health, HEPA filter vacuum, household dust, Katy Farber, mind the store, nontoxic kids, organizations, phthalates, policy, products, public health advocates, retailers, toxic, toxic flame retardants, bill, saferchemicals, safer, new, state, store

Safe Chemicals Act of 2010: An end to chemical policy’s polyester era?

Lindsay Dahl, Deputy Campaign Director It’s been a week since Senator Frank Lautenberg introduced the groundbreaking Safe Chemicals Act of 2010. Now that we’ve had more time to look over the Senate bill and the discussion draft released by the House of Representatives on the same day, we are still pleased. We support most aspects […]

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: American Chemistry Council, Congress, formaldehyde, lead, Lindsay Dahl, Natural Resources Defense Council, public health advocates, toxic flame retardants, Toxic Substances Control Act, TSCA reform, Huffington Post, Gina Soloman, President Obama’s desk, improve our nation’s health, new chemicals program, concern for public health, PBT chemicals, toxic chemicals and the EPA, make basic health and safety information publicly available for all chemicals, Alison Rose Levy, Gerald Ford

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