pinfa member, FRX Innovations (FRW Polymers), has started supplying PIN FR for use in interiors by a leading German car manufacturer. The application, developed in partnership with Xianzhong, a leading Chinese polyurethane foam manufacturer, follows an extensive...
US environmental health NGO “The Ecology Center” (Michigan) has published analysis of 600 components (fabric, foam, structural plastics) from 25 car seats (3 from the EU, 22 from the USA). Over 30% of seats showed bromine content (presumed to be FR), over 20% fluorine...
BTBPE = 1, 2-bis (2,4, 6-tribromophenoxy) ethane has been used to substitute the now-banned brominated flame retardant Octa-BDE (listed as POP in 2009). Sixty rats were dosed with 0 – 250 gm/kg BTBPE in feed for 30 days. Thyroid hormones FT4 and TT4 were significantly...
Some fifty different FRs were analysed in settled dust from a total of 18 informal e-waste and end-of-life vehicle processing workshops in Vietnam. FR levels were much higher for e-waste than vehicles. For e-waste, brominated FR levels showed 79 000 µg/kg,...
Infant exposure to organo-phosphorus FRs (OPFRs). A study of 259 children aged 3.5 years and 388 mothers in France (ELFE cohort) found nine OPFRs (out of 15 analysed) in at least one fifth of hair samples. DEEP, TEHP, TiPP, TMP, TOCP and TXP were not significantly...
