Data from California show lower levels of some halogenated FRs in dust with lower furniture fire safety standards. Dust was collected from only US colleges in New England (86 samples) in which furniture installed had been subject to different fire safety standards:...
Victoria Fire Fighters Association calls for a ban* on organohalogenated flame retardants in furniture, mattresses, children’s products and electronics casings. The report submitted to the Canada federal regulators by the University of Victoria (UVic) for the fire...
Dynamic Modifiers launches non-halogenated, non-antimony polypropylene concentrate for polyolefin textiles, films and molded parts. The concentrate conserves lightweight advantages of polyolefin fibres and non-polar properties, which tend to limit bacteria or virus...
Phytic acid, widely present in plants, showed to provide a wash-durable flame retardant for cotton. Phytic acid is the natural phosphorus storage molecule in plants and seeds. Cotton and nylon/cotton blend (Nyco) fabric samples were surface functionalised with...
pinfa has proposed, through Cefic, improvements to the textile industry BREF including integration of PIN FRs into fibres and updates on alternative assessments. pinfa comments include cor-recting information on phosphorus in wastewaters, corrections on decomposition...
