Potentially Cancer Causing Flame retardants may leach from your walls

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Couches throughout the nation have become notorious for containing flame-retardant chemicals that may do more harm than good.

Now, it turns out, those chemicals may also be leaching from the walls that surround you.
Because of laws passed in the 1970s, many homes and workplaces built in the United States since then contain foam insulation doused with flame retardants.

Not only are these substances potentially hazardous, but they also often do not make a structure any safer from fire, say researchers from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and other institutions, in a study published in November.

Inspired by their findings, a Bay Area lawmaker recently said she plans to introduce a bill in the Legislature that would reduce flame retardants in foam insulation installed anywhere in California. At the same time, California is revising a decades-old flammability standard in order to curb use of flame retardants in furniture. A proposal is expected by the spring.


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