Flame retardants are a key protection technology to reduce the specific problem of lithium-ion battery fires. Fires in lithium ion batteries (LIB) are uncommon, but are of concern because such batteries are ubiquitous, with increasingly large units such as in...
GreenScreen Standard for Furniture and Fabrics: US NGO Clean Product Action has launched a GreenScreen Certified Standard for “Furniture and Fabrics”. This excludes (A4.4) all flame retardants defined as “Any chemical or chemical compound for which a functional use is...
Organophosphorus metabolites in urine during pregnancy correlated to infant parameters: in a small sample (52 mother – child pairs only), two chlorinated (BCEP, BDCPP) and one non-halogenated (DPHP diphenyl phosphate) metabolites in urine during pregnancy showed...
FRs found in monkey faeces: A total of 60 faeces samples from primates (captive in Indiana, wild in Costa Riva and Uganda) were tested for 40 pesticides, 52 halogenated FRs and 12 non-halogenated organophosphorus FRs (non-H OPFRs). Only three non-H OPFRs were found in...
Wed. 28th October, 9h00 & 16h00 CET– click here to register The global electric vehicle (EV) market was estimated at 160 US$ billion in 2019 and is expected to grow to over 800 billion US$ by 2027. Electric car sales increased 40% year-on-year in 2019, reaching...
