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TOXIC car seats…what’s next?

May 24, 2008 By 3 Comments
I checked my email and could not believe I was reading about car seats being toxic.

Mom’s Rising sent me this:

A recent study conducted by the watchdog group, Friends of the Earth, found that 56% of infant carriers, 44% of car seats, and 40% of the strollers they tested had dangerous levels of toxic fire retardant chemicals.[1]

This is downright scary–and is yet another toxic exposure on a long list of children’s products with toxic chemicals to come out lately. We have to turn this tide.

The good news: Graco, the giant manufacturer of children’s products, responded to the Friends of the Earth report the day it was published. Graco says they want to do the right thing, but they haven’t yet committed to removing these chemicals from their products. If Graco gets rid of these chemicals, other baby product manufacturers will be under enormous pressure to follow suit.

*Ask Graco, and other manufacturers of children’s products, to not use any more halogenated fire retardants – period!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1768/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1230

Haloge-what? Halogenated flame retardants have been shown to cause serious health disorders including endocrine disruption, cancer, birth defects and a host of reproductive and neurological disorders in developing fetuses and offspring in animals.

No frickin’ way! What will be next? We buckle our kiddos into their car seats to protect them but the foam they’re bottom is in, it is loaded with toxic chemicals. Watch this CBS video to learn more:




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  • Michelle

    Now that’s awfully depressing. Seriously, what’s the alternative? How can that be allowed… silently fuming here. As my children are required to be in them until at least age 8. That’s a *lot* of driving and sitting in carseats.

  • http://www.raisingpeanuts.com Donielle

    I started researching all of this after I had my son two years ago and wished I had done something better for him and found out about all of this before he was born. As someone who also suffers from slight infertility, it makes me wonder if all I’ve been exposed to created my condition. Actually I don’t wonder anymore, not with the steep rise in infertility the last couple decades! What else could make so much of the country infertile?! Thanks for the video, I’ll be passing it along myself.

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