[Pharmwaste] RE: Foam Alone: Do Furniture Flame Retardants Save EnoughLives to Justify Their Environmental Damage?

[Stevan Gressitt]

Relative risk? Who offers a calculation?

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Fredrick L. Miller <
millerfl at tricity.wsu.edu> wrote:

> “Susan Lundy, a spokesperson for Albemarle, who herself was nearly burned
> as a child when her pajamas caught fire, says there's no question. "You ask
> people who lose their children in fires, 'Do they think it's valuable to
> have flame retardants in there?' I promise you, they would say, 'Yes.'”
>
> Oh, the children.  Well, that ends it.  There can be no further rational
> debate.  The issue dies there.  Wave the bloody rag and terrify the
> uneducated masses.  The chemical peddlers win.  They played the “children”
> card first.  Nevermind the children are at far greater risk from exposure to
> the chemicals.  It’s much easier to paint a mental picture of children
> burning and disfigured for life.  After all, if need be they can always dig
> up the picture of the little girl from Vietnam running naked with the last
> few rags of her clothing in flames from a napalm attack.  It’s real hard to
> conjure up such a viscerally impacting image of the damage done by endocrine
> disruptors and carcinogens.
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> Fred Miller
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> Washington State University
>
> College of Pharmacy
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> *From:* pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us [mailto:
> pharmwaste-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] *On Behalf Of *DeBiasi, Deborah
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> *Sent:* Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:08 AM
> *To:* pharmwaste at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> *Subject:* [Pharmwaste] Foam Alone: Do Furniture Flame Retardants Save
> EnoughLives to Justify Their Environmental Damage?
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> http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage<http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage&print=true>
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> *Foam Alone: Do Furniture Flame Retardants Save Enough Lives to Justify
> Their Environmental Damage? *
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> An obscure California law effectively sets flammability standards for foam
> in the nation's furniture, but proposed new legislation claims flame
> retardants don't prevent fires and could have negative health impacts
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> By Erik Vance <http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=1645>  |
> Monday, April 18, 2011
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-- 
Stevan Gressitt, M.D.
Faculty Associate, University of Maine Center on Aging
Academic Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research
Athens, Greece
Founding Director, International Institute for Pharmaceutical Safety
University of New England, College of Pharmacy
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of New England, College of Osteopathic Medicine
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