Although China flame retardant materials in application area and the developed countries, there are larger gap, but due to the influence of some radical environmentalism, on flame retardant has many social prejudice, "bromine flame retardants poisonous and harmful" is one of the most representative point of view.

, secretary general of the China flame retardant industry technology innovation strategic alliance li-jun qian said: "the flame retardants and other chemicals, environmental protection or not has nothing to do with the contained elements (such as halogen), and specific chemical structure is close. There is no any rules will all international bromine flame retardants on the disabled list, nor is there any regulations, adding halogen free flame retardant to the list of immunity. In fact, in dozens of varieties of bromine flame retardants, currently only hexabromocyclododecane products was listed with list of persistent organic pollutants (pops). There is no scientific evidence to prove that the vast majority of other bromide flame retardants in use will bring the environment and human health risk."