Flammability standards for furniture,building insulation and electronics:Benefit and risk

作     者：Joseph *** Roland Weber Arlene Blum 

作者机构：Green Science Policy InstituteBerkeleyCA94709United States POPs Environmental Consulting73527Schw€abisch GmündGermany Department of ChemistryUniversity of CaliforniaBerkeleyBerkeleyCA94720United States 

出 版 物：《Emerging Contaminants》 (新兴污染物（英文）)

年 卷 期：2020年第6卷第1期

页      面：432-441页

学科分类：1007[医学-药学(可授医学、理学学位)] 0830[工学-环境科学与工程（可授工学、理学、农学学位）] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 08[工学] 0838[工学-公安技术] 

主　　题：insulation maintain flame 

摘      要：Flammability standards for furniture,building insulation and electronics were established in an attempt to mitigate fire ***,research suggests that some of these flammability standards should be *** levels of flame retardant chemicals,primarily organohalogens,are added to these products in order to comply with fire safety *** and organophosphate flame retardants are associated with adverse health effects such as diminished immune function,endocrine disruption,and ***,flame retardants may not provide a significant fire safety benefit as used in many products,and these chemicals can hinder material *** reviewed evidence of how flammability standards drive the continued use of harmful flame retardants and investigated cases in which flame retardants are used to achieve standard compliance without providing a significant fire safety *** widespread continuous use of toxic flame retardant chemicals demonstrates that toxicological evidence and chemical-by-chemical regulation alone are not sufficient to prevent their inclusion in consumer ***,recent experiences show that updated flammability standards can reduce the use of flame retardants while maintaining,or even increasing,fire *** opportunities exist for improved standards that could further decrease flame retardant use and maintain fire safety.