Are car seats toxic for your baby?

The Independent Tuesday 24th May, 2011

A new study announced last week cites that 80 percent of cushions used in car seats, portable cribs, and other baby furniture contain chemical flame retardants that can accumulate in babies’ bodies. The US researchers tested 101 baby products that contain polyurethane foam, including car seats, changing tables, nursing pillows, high chairs, and strollers, with many of them containing a fire retardant known as TDCPP that has been linked to cancer in animal studies. The study did not disclose product names but US-based CBS News cites a couple of products by manufacturers Evenflo and Snuggly as being among those containing toxic chemicals.A small percentage of the products also contained an illegal class of fire retardants called penta brominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, which was ph...

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