Archive for January, 2008

I recently got an e-mail from a mother in California who wanted to know of I had any information about car seats manufactured without flame retardants.  I unsuccessfully tried to come up with some sources for her.  Does anyone know of any companies that are making car seats free of PBDEs?

A TOUGH DILEMMA: in the United States most children’s pajamas are treated with flame retardants, which can give our kids critical extra time to escape a fire. Flame resistant sleepwear is likely to be labeled as “flame resistant.” I looked around and found an alternative. The trick is to find sleepwear that has the label, […]

STUDY: Dr. Arnold Schecter from the University of Texas conducted the first ever comprehensive study of PBDEs in mother’s milk in 2002. By analyzing forty-seven samples of milk from two Texas milk banks, he determined that levels were from 10-100 times higher in the United States than in Europe where PBDEs are used less. In […]

Go to www.youtube.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT089slyyj0) and take a look at my husband’s television appearance on youtube where he talks about his effort to green New York State. I like it because he talks about me, his wife, and closes the interview with a mention of his mother, my super fantastic mother-in-law.
 

“How do flame retardants affect our children?”
At this point, it is difficult to really understand the full extent of what PBDEs are doing do to our children’s growing bodies. Scientific research conducted on rodents shows that like PCBs, PBDEs interfere with the thyroid gland’s ability to send its hormone thyroxine to do its job in […]