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Study: Most People Are Now Flame Retardant

Saturday, March 25, 2017 16:27

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March 26th, 2017

By Dr. Joseph Mercola

Contributing writer for Wake Up World

In 1973, the U.S. government passed a law requiring that all children’s sleepwear must be fire resistant. Legislators may have believed they were preserving public health, believing such laws help keep citizens safe. But, to borrow a phrase, the medicine is sometimes worse than the disease.

Here’s why: Fewer than five years later, scientists discovered that the chemical used to make those flame-retardant fabrics — brominated Tris — was responsible for rising incidences of cancer. Brominated Tris was then banned in kids’ pajamas. By 1977, other chemicals were being used to render such articles as baby toys, clothing, carpeting, sofas, draperies and even crib mattresses flame resistant. Growing realization that the chemicals were causing even more health problems led to widespread concern.

Consumer Reports noted: “In 2004, such concerns led to one of the most commonly used flame-retardant mixtures, called pentaBDE, being voluntarily phased out after it was linked to health problems and was detected in alarming levels in people’s bodies. Many manufacturers began to use organophosphates in their place.” 1

However, a new comprehensive study led by Duke University2 reveals that two flame-retardant chemicals in the organophosphates class are today showing up in peoples’ urine. Worse, levels of the two most commonly used organophosphates, TDCIPP and TPHP, have risen steadily in urine samples collected between 2002 and 2015.

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