Furniture flame retardant phosphorus system will replace bromine

In October 2013, a monitoring agency in Berkeley, California sued more than 30 sales companies including IKEA, JCPenney (a US department store chain), and Kmart (a world-renowned shopping site) for the reason that these companies sold to consumers. The furniture contains a lot of flame retardant, in violation of the California No. 65, furniture flame retardant trap "carcinogenic door", bromine is the main killer In October 2013, a monitoring agency in Berkeley, California sued, including IKEA, More than 30 sales companies, including JCPenney (United States department store chain brand) and Kmart (world-renowned shopping site), sued for the company’s sale of furniture containing large quantities of flame retardants to consumers, in violation of California’s Proposition 65 These companies have agreed to pay a total of 2.3 million U.S. dollars in civil fines.

According to reports in the United States, these harmful flame retardants are mainly targeted at two chemicals. One is Tris, and the second is PentaBDEs. Numerous studies have shown that brominated flame retardants can penetrate into the environment and accumulate in living organisms over time; it can be said that they are virtually impenetrable, including air, soil, underwater sediments, wildlife, human blood, breast milk . According to existing research, brominated flame retardants have been shown to disrupt endocrine activity, affect thyroid function regulation, and even affect brain development; in particular, excessive exposure to pregnant women can directly lead to low birth weight and low IQ of newborn babies. Impaired ability to perform. Because of this, after 2005, some U.S. manufacturers began voluntarily abandoning this flame retardant, which is currently being banned in 23 U.S. states. Most developed countries have also abandoned brominated flame retardants.

Second, the brominated flame retardant will be eliminated. Currently, in addition to removing inorganic flame retardants globally, brominated flame retardants are still dominant, but brominated flame retardants tend to form polybrominated benzoquinones when burned ( PBDD) and polybrominated dibenzofurans (PBDF) have a destructive effect on human organs. At the same time, they produce a lot of smoke and cause suffocation. In order to reduce the harmful effects of flame retardants, halogen-based flame retardants have been gradually replaced with non-halogenated phosphorus flame retardants and inorganic flame retardants.