Sixteen PIN FRs are now on the TCO Certified list of safer alternatives. TCO Certified, the health, environment and worker protection label for office and home electronics, has updated its list of “alternative safer substances” to now include 16 PIN flame retardants,...
Cigarette ignition resistance will be legally required for all furniture sold in the USA. The provision is included in the 1.4 billion US$ US Covid relief package, finally signed by Donald Trump at the end of December. Six months from enactment of the bill, the...
The State has enacted legislation banning ten brominated and chlorinated FRs and ATO in a range of applications: residential upholstered furniture, bedding, carpets, curtains and blinds, children’s products. The ban applies to sale, distribution and manufacture of...
The US EPA has effectively banned five PBT chemicals including the brominated FR DecaBDE. Under TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act) section 6(h), the US EPA has effectively banned five Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) chemicals, including decabromodiphenyl ether...
In Europe, however, trixylyl phosphate is on the REACH SVHC Candidate List (Substance of Very High Concern). The Canada “screening assessment” covers the PIN FR trixylyl phosphate and two other organo-phosphate chemicals. Trixylyl phosphate is used as a PIN flame...
