Page, Jamie;
Whaley, Paul;
Bellingham, Michelle;
Birnbaum, Linda S;
Cavoski, Aleksandra;
Fetherston Dilke, Delyth;
Garside, Ruth;
... Woolley, Tom; + view all
(2023)
A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants.
Environment International
, Article 107782. 10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782.
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Abstract
Flame retardants are chemical substances that are intended to mitigate fire safety risks posed by a range of goods including furniture, electronics, and building insulation. There are growing concerns about their effectiveness in ensuring fire safety and the potential harms they pose to human health and the environment. In response to these concerns, on 13 June 2022, a roundtable of experts was convened by the UKRI Six Clean Air Strategic Priorities Fund programme 7. The meeting produced a Consensus Statement that summarises the issues around the use of flame retardants, laying out a series of policy recommendations that should lead to more effective fire safety measures and reduce the human and environmental health risks posed by these potentially toxic chemicals.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | A new consensus on reconciling fire safety with environmental & health impacts of chemical flame retardants |
| Location: | Netherlands |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2023.107782 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| Keywords: | Fire safety, Flame retardants, Furniture, Policy, Regulation, Upholstery |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Arts and Sciences (BASc) |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10166548 |
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