EU SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE SAYS TEXTILE FIRE RETARDANT IS SAFE
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) scientific committee on health and environmental risks has given a clean bill of health for the use of the textile flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD). It has concluded that "there is at present no need for further information and/or testing and for risk reduction measures beyond those which are being applied already" as regards the exposure of textile industry workers using HBCDD during textile sewing and also "for all scenarios for consumers."
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