One member of that family of chemicals, known collectively as chlorinated tris, was removed from children’s pajamas over cancer concerns a generation ago. Yet that same flame retardant turned up in ...

OLYMPIA — The state Senate has passed a bill to ban one potentially cancer-causing flame retardant from kids’ products but not another that is more widely used. In its original form, the bill would ...

WHILE ATTENDING a green chemistry conference in 2006, Arlene Blum found herself chatting with a foam industry executive. When he sketched the structure of a flame retardant currently used in couches, ...

Washington, D.C. - A new peer reviewed study published today in Environmental Science and Technology shows a carcinogen has been used to replace banned toxic flame retardants in many couches sampled ...

Manufacturers long ago stopped adding a cancer-causing flame retardant to children’s pajamas, but federal officials failed to ban the chemical during the late 1970s and as recently as five years ago ...

OLYMPIA — Washington state legislators announced plans Wednesday to ban a suspected carcinogen from being used as a flame retardant in children’s products. Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson and Sen. Sharon ...

A published statement by 145 scientists from 22 countries expresses new worries about the health effects of flame retardants used in mattresses, furniture, electronics, and other consumer products, ...

Study: California law results in consumers nationwide being exposed to harmful chemicals by Truman Lewis of ConsumerAffairs | December 4, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. | Updated December 4, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. No ...