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Alfa Chemistry Exhibits Expertise in Flame Retardant Performance Analysis and Innovative Flame Retardant Design
Flame retardants are indispensable in transportation, electrical and electronic equipment, furniture, and building material in order to prevent fires and safeguard people's lives and property. The New York-based chemical supplier, Alfa Chemistry, has recently expanded its business scope into the field of flame retardant materials, offering a wide variety of related products, including: ...
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EPA Announces Safer Alternatives for Toxic Flame Retardants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 12, 2014, safer alternatives to flame retardants currently used in consumer and commercial products, including building insulation and products with flexible polyurethane foam. According to EPA, flame retardant chemicals such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) and pentabromodiphenyl ether (pentaBDE) "raise concerns for human health ...
By Acta Group
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EPA Announces Safer Alternatives for Toxic Flame Retardants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on June 12, 2014, safer alternatives to flame retardants currently used in consumer and commercial products, including building insulation and products with flexible polyurethane foam. According to EPA, flame retardant chemicals such as hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) and pentabromodiphenyl ether (pentaBDE) "raise concerns for human health ...
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EPA Announces Chemicals for Risk Assessment in 2013, Focus on Widely Used Flame Retardants
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will begin assessments on 23 commonly used chemicals, with a specific focus on flame retardant chemicals, in order to more fully understand any potential risks to people’s health and the environment. This effort is part of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Work Plan which identifies commonly used chemicals for risk ...
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Aluminum hydroxide in the polymer materials
When speaking of aluminum hydroxide, the first impression is used as flame retardant material, but aluminum hydroxide are also commonly used in the polymer materials. Let's look at: the metal oxide ATH can be produced with many metal alumina synergy, had the literature reports ATH with Ni, zinc, Mn, Zr, Sb, Fe, Ti oxides and produce synergies. Among them, Fe, Sb oxide to improve the efficiency ...
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3-D images show flame retardants can mimic estrogens in NIH Study
By determining the three-dimensional structure of proteins at the atomic level, researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered how some commonly used flame retardants, called brominated flame retardants (BFRs), can mimic estrogen hormones and possibly disrupt the body’s endocrine system. BFRs are chemicals added or applied to materials to slow or prevent the start or ...
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New Association Formed to Advance Non-halogenated Flame Retardant Solutions in North America
Pinfa-NA (Phosphorus, Inorganic and Nitrogen Flame Retardants Association -North America) announced it has officially launched in Califon, NJ. The organization was formed by leaders in the flame retardant industry that focus on non-halogen solutions and materials. Pinfa-NA is a sister organization of Pinfa (www.pinfa.org), a Sector Group of Cefic (the European Chemical Industry Council). The ...
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Non-Halogenated FR Plastic Sheeting...is it in our future?
It looks like Halogenated Fire retardant additives will be outlawed in the coming years. That is what is on the horizon, with Europe reportedly leading the way in 2015! The problem with Halogenated materials is that while they are very effective flame retardants, they contribute to additional smoke generation. In recent years, public pressure has come from both public and governmental entities. ...
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Flame Retardant
Our product has great flame retardant performance when add into cable/wire compounds especially when the compounds used ...
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EPA Identifies Substitutes for Toxic Flame Retardant Chemical
In its quest to identify possible substitutes for a toxic flame retardant chemical known as decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a draft report on alternatives. This comprehensive assessment, developed with public participation under EPA’s Design for the Environment (DfE) program, profiles the environmental and human health hazards ...
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Governor Brown Announces New Standards to Reduce Toxic Chemicals in Furniture
California Governor Jerry Brown today announced the state’s new flammability standards for upholstered furniture, the culmination of a year-long effort by the Brown administration and environmental, public health and consumer groups who advocated to modernize the standards and reduce Californians’ exposure to toxic and untested flame retardant chemicals. Following is a statement by ...
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End of Exemption on Toxic Additives to Enter Recycling Streams in The EU
Environmental health groups celebrate the end to EU allowance for banned flame retardant chemicals to enter recycling streams and new products The European Union (EU) has taken an important step towards cleaning up its recycling; it will no longer allow materials containing a class of toxic, globally banned flame retardants known as PBDEs to be recycled. Researchers had revealed that across ...
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EPA Announces List of Chemicals for Assessment in 2013
On March 27, 2013, as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Work Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will begin assessments on 23 chemicals, with a specific focus on flame retardant chemicals. According to EPA's press release, EPA will evaluate 20 flame retardant chemicals, conducting full risk assessments for four of the flame retardants, three of ...
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EPA Announces List of Chemicals for Assessment in 2013
On March 27, 2013, as part of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Work Plan, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it will begin assessments on 23 chemicals, with a specific focus on flame retardant chemicals. According to EPA's press release, EPA will evaluate 20 flame retardant chemicals, conducting full risk assessments for four of the flame retardants, three of ...
By Acta Group
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RoHS Directive: New tools to measure polybrominated flame retardants
The European Commission's Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) has released two new certified reference materials (CRMs) to help analytical laboratories better detect two classes of flame retardants banned under the RoHS Directive. Polybrominated flame retardants are used in a wide variety of products to inhibit or resist the spread of fire, for example, paper, furniture ...
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Thermo Fisher Scientific accelerates analysis of pesticides and flame retardants in drinking water with DSQ II single quadrupole mass spectrometer
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, has introduced a new application note illustrating how the Thermo Scientific DSQ II single quadrupole mass spectrometer provides an effective method for the accelerated analysis of flame retardants and pesticides in drinking water. The new application note, entitled 'Analysis of Pesticides and Flame Retardants in Drinking Water ...
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Flame Retardants under Scrutiny Once Again
Last month, concerns over flame retardants and their ongoing impact in young children were in the news once again. The topic was under the spotlight after researchers studied several hundred pregnant women looking for polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in blood samples. They found that elevated levels of PBDEs correlated with childhood behavior and learning challenges. PBDEs include a ...
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UConn Student Team Wins Grant for Environmental Project
A student team from Connecticut is among five teams in New England chosen by the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive up to $15,000 to pursue projects that deliver sustainable, alternative methods of addressing environmental challenges. The University of Connecticut in Storrs, Conn. won the funding for a project that will develop a cost effective and environmentally friendly flame ...
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Flame Retardants and Ways to Protect the Environment and Communities from Exposure Risks
Since the 1970s, a diverse group of chemicals known as flame retardants have been added to, or applied on, thousands of different consumer and industrial goods to address flammability standards in countries across the globe. Flame retardants have been formulated to slow or prevent the start of a fire on these products and materials. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ...
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Legislature sends flame retardants ban to Governor’s desk...again
Last night the Massachusetts House and Senate passed a ban on toxic flame retardant chemicals sending it to the Governor’s desk just under the wire as the end of the two year legislative session approaches. Firefighters, environment and health advocates and others hailed the bill as a critical move to protect public health and called on Governor Charlie Baker to sign the bill into law. ...
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