Relative risk? Who offers a calculation?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Fredrick L. Miller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:millerfl@tricity.wsu.edu">millerfl@tricity.wsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">“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.'”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">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.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">Fred Miller</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">Washington State University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">College of Pharmacy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> <a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">pharmwaste-bounces@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>DeBiasi, Deborah (DEQ)<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 21, 2011 8:08 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us" target="_blank">pharmwaste@lists.dep.state.fl.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Pharmwaste] Foam Alone: Do Furniture Flame Retardants Save EnoughLives to Justify Their Environmental Damage? </span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage&print=true" target="_blank">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage</a></p>
<p> </p><p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222">Permanent Address:</span><span lang="EN"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222">http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=do-furniture-flame-retardants-save-enough-lives-justify-environmental-damage</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222"> </span></p>
<p><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:36.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">Foam Alone: Do Furniture Flame Retardants Save Enough Lives to Justify Their Environmental Damage? </span></b></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222">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</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222">By</span><span lang="EN"> </span><a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/author.cfm?id=1645" target="_blank"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#19437C">Erik Vance</span></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#222222"> | Monday, April 18, 2011</span></p>
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