Whether the flame retardant is environmentally friendly and whether it contains halogen has nothing to do?

Whether the flame retardant is environmentally friendly and whether it contains halogen has nothing to do?

Whether the flame retardant is environmentally friendly and whether it contains halogen has nothing to do with the family of brominated flame retardants includes more than 70 different chemicals, which have a variety of different properties.

A few halogen-containing flame retardants have environmental risks, but a flame retardant does not represent the entire family of flame retardants. Each chemical has its own unique characteristics and cannot simply be classified as a family based on the presence of a certain element in the chemical, assuming that the family all has a common property. The role of flame retardants is to prevent the occurrence of fire, delaying the arrival of boom ignition and giving people more chances to escape.

Fire itself is toxic, and the main cause of death from fire is toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. These toxic gases are produced whether you use flame retardants or not, and whether you use brominated flame retardants or not. Therefore, brominated flame retardants not only do not exacerbate the toxicity of fires, but are also credited to the environment in terms of inhibiting the occurrence of fires and reducing the production of toxic gases.

At the same time, the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), European regulations "Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals" (REACH) and a large number of other laws and regulations around the world have strict regulation of chemicals, including flame retardants. After rigorous evaluation, most brominated flame retardants are safe for use in consumer products.

It is worth noting that the BSEF has gone a step further with some brominated flame retardants, such as tetrabromobisphenol A, and found that they can meet more stringent requirements than the above-mentioned regulations in terms of environmental and human health. For example, when used in printed circuit boards, tetrabromobisphenol A is a reactive flame retardant that can eventually produce brominated epoxy resins. Such boards have a very low risk of chemical exposure to the public and a very high degree of safety.

Not all brominated flame retardants are persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Only one of the brominated flame retardants still being produced and sold is a POPs, namely hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD). The Stockholm Convention of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) officially listed it as a POPs in 2013.

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