Cancer-Linked Flame Retardants Eased Out of Furniture in 2014
http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... nked-flame
The problem remains as furniture manufacturers and retailers can apparently sell flame retardant laced furniture made prior to 2014. There are other loopholes too. Foam treated with flame retardants can be recycled into floor padding.
The most insidious problem is that of household dust from these sofas, beds, and chairs. This household dust not only can contain molds, dog and cat dander, bed bug fecal matter, dust mites, and their feces, but also flame retardants and other dangerous chemicals. How many people will keep an expensive sofa or bed for 10 more years before they donate it to a charity thus polluting many homes as the furniture travels from one home to another?
Another yucky trivia: It is said that a bed or sofa can double in weight in ten years due to the dust from dust mite fecal matter alone.