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Flame Retardants: Upcoming Challenges in Environment and Health

Join us on 30.10.2013 at the UK SNS annual event to discuss flame retardants' impact on health and the environment. Learn about current developments, share information, and explore the need for a coordinated approach to counteract products affected. Discover more about the legal framework and the views of US organizations on this critical issue. Your support is crucial in addressing the serious health effects and environmental impacts associated with flame retardants.

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Flame Retardants: Upcoming Challenges in Environment and Health

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  1. Upcoming challenges: flame retardants Stamatis Sivitos, 30.10.2013 UK SNS annual event

  2. Outline

  3. Background

  4. IEC 62368/ 60065 and EN 60065 Amendment 11

  5. Aims of this meeting • Background and update on current developments • Call for your support • Share information/ brainstorm • Need for coordinated approach – counteraction

  6. Products affected

  7. Is there a need for this clause?

  8. “How eight TV fires spread across the world” Source: Chicago Tribune reporting

  9. Source: Chicago Tribune reporting

  10. Source: Chicago Tribune reporting

  11. Source: Chicago Tribune reporting

  12. Use of statistics Source: Green Science Policy Institute, Berkeley, USA

  13. Why is this important?

  14. Flameretardants

  15. Environmental pathways

  16. Health and env. impacts Serious adverse health effects in experimental animals and accumulation in humans - documented in many hundreds of peer reviewed articles (Blum et al , 2008 – The Case against Candle Resistant Electronics)

  17. Otherenv impacts • Plastic products containing FR are hard to recycle • Flame retarded plastic is either being incinerated, landfilled, or exported to developing countries

  18. What about the legal framework?

  19. EU legislation • RoHS Directive & REACH Regulation: banned or restricted only a small fraction of the chemicals of concern • Complicated and long process via REACH • Applicable only in the EU => Regulatory framework not sufficient

  20. Views of US organisations • Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) • Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) • Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) “potential risk was too low to justify the implementation of a candle flame ignition requirement”

  21. The coalition (Blum et al , 2008 – The Case against Candle Resistant Electronics)

  22. ECOS work • Alerted the relevant standardisation bodies (CENELEC & IEC) • Contacted the national members of IEC and CENELEC, providing the relevant scientific input • Raised awareness among env NGOs in the EU

  23. Outcomes

  24. State of play

  25. Conclusions

  26. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! Mundo-B Rue d’Edimbourg 26, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium Direct line: + 32 2 894 46 56 stamatis.sivitos@ecostandard.org http://www.ecostandard.org

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