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How to choose flame-retardant free furniture

UPDATE: In October 2015, Macy’s announced that it would stop selling furniture containing flame retardants! Keeping your family safe and healthy can be difficult these days. It seems like every new product that comes out has some scary toxic chemical in it just waiting to be linked to equally scary health problems. Brominated and chlorinated […]

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SCHF issues position on Chemical Safety Improvement Act

Sincere effort at bi-partisan progress; needs improvement to ensure adequate protection

Filed Under: Policy & Regulation Tagged With: Environment and Public Works Committee, Real Reform, toxic substances control act of 1976, TSCA, TSCA reform, Protect Vulnerable Populations, Preserve State Authority, Require Adequate Data to Prioritize Chemicals, the health and environmental community, labor and business, low priority, high priority, v, California’s Prop 65 law, preempted, State and local authority, bi-partisan progress

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