A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants

Jamie Page; Paul Whaley; Michelle Bellingham; Linda S. Birnbaum; Aleksandra Cavoski; Delyth Fetherston Dilke; Ruth Garside; Stuart Harrad; Frank Kelly; Andreas Kortenkamp; Olwenn Martin; Anna Stec; Tom Woolley

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782

A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants

Jamie Page^*, Paul Whaley^*, Michelle Bellingham, Linda S. Birnbaum, Aleksandra Cavoski, Delyth Fetherston Dilke, Ruth Garside, Stuart Harrad, Frank Kelly, Andreas Kortenkamp, Olwenn Martin, Anna Stec, Tom Woolley

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Flame retardants are chemical substances that are intended to mitigate fire safety risks posed by a range of goods including furniture, electronics, and building insulation. There are growing concerns about their effectiveness in ensuring fire safety and the potential harms they pose to human health and the environment. In response to these concerns, on 13 June 2022, a roundtable of experts was convened by the UKRI Six Clean Air Strategic Priorities Fund programme 7. The meeting produced a Consensus Statement that summarises the issues around the use of flame retardants, laying out a series of policy recommendations that should lead to more effective fire safety measures and reduce the human and environmental health risks posed by these potentially toxic chemicals.

Original language	English
Article number	107782
Number of pages	4
Journal	Environment International
Volume	173
Early online date	28 Feb 2023
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782
Publication status	Published - Mar 2023

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Fire safety
Flame retardants
Furniture
Policy
Regulation
Upholstery

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UN SDGs

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Page, J., Whaley, P., Bellingham, M., Birnbaum, L. S., Cavoski, A., Fetherston Dilke, D., Garside, R., Harrad, S., Kelly, F., Kortenkamp, A., Martin, O., Stec, A., & Woolley, T. (2023). A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants. Environment International, 173, Article 107782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782

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