POLITICS flame-retardant mattress warning

[Guest guest]

I know this isn't nutrition-related, but I don't want it to be ignored.

The National Flameproof Mattress regulation: in July 2007, the federal

regulation (16 CFR

1640), mandating a strict national flameproof mattress standard, forced all new

mattresses

to withstand a two-foot wide blowtorch open-flame test for 70 seconds.

This means every normal new mattress in the US has some toxic chemicals in it to

be flame

retardant. Could be formaldehyde, antimony, boric acid...

There is an exception if you get a " doctor's prescription, " but effectively,

this has shut out a

lot of smaller mattress producers. I'm guessing it won't be cheap to get a

flame-retardant-

free mattress, nor easy.

This seems to have gone unnoticed by many people, and I'm rather concerned about

people

buying new beds.

Gray, Chandler, AZ