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Flame retardants are important ingredients in today's consumer products. The additives boost the safety of items ranging from upholstered furniture to television sets and floor tiles, saving lives in the process. However, the dollar 2.2-bilion market continues to adjust to ongoing concerns about toxicity and bioaccumulation of brominated flame retardants - one of the largest market segments and popular additives for plastics. Sentiments in the EU are also likely to have a global ripple effect. Companies traditionally focused on brominated compounds continue to bolster their product lines with nonhalogenated products, such as boron and phosporus compounds. Examples are presented. Not all bromine-based fire retardants are under scrutiny and companies continue to boost their bromine-based product lines. An EU risk assessment of PBDEs will be finalized this hear. The proposed ROS directive would ban goods containing all three PBDEs by year 2004. Meanwhile, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision is considering a flammability standard for fabrics used on residential furniture. The chemicals deemed safe by the panel are hexabromocyclododecane, decabromodiphenyl oxide, alumina trihydrate, magnesium hydroxide, zinc borate, ammonium polyphosphates, phosphonic acid, and tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium choride.
Flame retardants are important ingredients in today's consumer products. The additives boost the safety of items ranging from upholstered furniture to television sets and floor tiles, saving lives in the process. However, the dollar 2.2-bilion market continues to adjust to ongoing concerns about toxicity and bioaccumulation of brominated flame retardants - one of the largest market segments and popular additives for plastics. Sentiments in the EU are also likely to have a global ripple effect. Companies traditionally focused on brominated compounds continue to bolster their product lines with nonhalogenated products, such as boron and phosporus compounds. Examples are presented. Not all bromine-based fire retardants are under scrutiny and companies continue to boost their bromine-based product lines. An EU risk assessment of PBDEs will be finalized this hear. The proposed ROS directive would ban goods containing all three PBDEs by year 2004. Meanwhile, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commision is considering a flammability standard for fabrics used on residential furniture. The chemicals deemed safe by the panel are hexabromocyclododecane, decabromodiphenyl oxide, alumina trihydrate, magnesium hydroxide, zinc borate, ammonium polyphosphates, phosphonic acid, and tetrakis hydroxymethyl phosphonium choride.
Flame retardants still under fire
Crabb, C. (author)
Chemical Engineering, New York ; 108 ; 51-54
2001
3 Seiten, 3 Bilder, 18 Quellen
Article (Journal)
English
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