Many of the acute toxicity of bromine series flame retardant is below the salt
Time:2017-02-17
Glue webex: regulations on environmental protection in recent years, the use of flame retardant on safety and environmental protection has made more and more strict limit, led many to some misunderstanding of flame retardant, has drawn great attention of the industry.
Bromine flame retardants suitable for almost all need flame retardant materials, the Stockholm convention of the United Nations are currently disabled deadline only hexabromocyclododecane bromine flame retardants, the vast majority of bromine flame retardants strict evaluation prove harmless to the human body and the environment.
Secretary general of China flame retardant society, said the vast majority of bromine flame retardants without toxic label, the acute toxicity of many bromine series flame retardant is even lower than salt, such as the dosage of the largest bromine flame retardants, tetrabromobisphenol A.
According to the evaluation commission, over the past decade, the use of flame retardant to make the fire death toll declined by 20% in Europe. National bureau of standards (NIST) to fire test also showed that the five types of products, compared with people stay in room without flame retardant material, a flame retardant material stay in the people in the room 15 times higher than that of the average survival time.