{"id":216,"date":"2012-01-11T20:35:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2015-08-06T23:04:41","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T06:04:41","slug":"avoiding-flame-retardants-in-upholstery-fabric-and-other-common-household-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/avoiding-flame-retardants-in-upholstery-fabric-and-other-common-household-item\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoiding Flame Retardants in Upholstery, Fabric and Other Common Household Item"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/upholsteryfabric-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-271\" title=\"upholstered_sofa\" src=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/upholsteryfabric-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/upholsteryfabric-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/upholsteryfabric-2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/upholsteryfabric-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>If you are concerned about toxic flame-retardants in upholstered furniture and other interior furnishings and products, you are not alone. \u00a0There is a growing awareness of the health effects from organophosphate flame-retardants, but little information on where they are, and how to avoid them. In this article, I give some tips and guidance on avoiding the most common sources of toxic flame- retardants.<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/greenhomeguide.com\/askapro\/question\/do-bfrs-brominated-flame-retardants-offgas-or-persist-in-upholstery-would-they-be-in-the-stuffing-of-a-sofa-or-in-the-fabric-cover-\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/greenhomeguide.com\/askapro\/question\/do-bfrs-brominated-flame-retardants-offgas-or-persist-in-upholstery-would-they-be-in-the-stuffing-of-a-sofa-or-in-the-fabric-cover-\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are concerned about toxic flame-retardants in upholstered furniture and other interior furnishings and products, you are not alone. \u00a0There is a growing awareness of the health effects from organophosphate flame-retardants, but little information on where they are, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/avoiding-flame-retardants-in-upholstery-fabric-and-other-common-household-item\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,56,9,58],"tags":[40,39,41,38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marycordaro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}