Toxic chemical fumes from new mattresses?
Salon's Rebecca Clarren reports on the damage done to America's Environmental Protection Agency under the Bush Administration.
As the US EPA has more or less stopped studying and regulating toxic chemicals for the past 8 years, then there are going to be all kinds of hazards out there that will take years to identify and fix.
Just the other day I came across a possible example of the trend. I was reading that as of 2007, all mattresses made in the US must be treated with a fire retardant that seems to be quite toxic. It is one example of the what the EPA's failure to regulate could mean for people living not only in the US, but all over the world:
1 comments:
Thanks for the post. mattresses are something you sleep on every day and it's scary to know you may be breathing in harmful fumes when you sleep!
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