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Furniture retailers phase out of toxic flame retardant chemicals brings safer choices

– Advocates Urge Other Leading Retailers to Adopt Timelines and Policies to Eliminate Harmful Chemicals – Several of the nation’s largest retailers have eliminated or begun phasing out furniture with chemicals known as toxic flame retardants, which have been linked to cancer and learning and developmental disabilities in children. However the pace of the phase-outs […]

Filed Under: Find Safer Products, Mind the Store Tagged With: Ashley, Ashley Furniture, Chicago Tribune, couch, Crate and Barrel, firefighters, flame retardants, mind the store, NRDC, safer chemicals, sofa, Target, TB117, toxic, toxic chemicals, Walmart, Williams-Sonoma, room and board, Jerry Brown

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