Halogen: Whether flame retardants are environmentally friendly or not

Environmental protection and fire prevention, bromine flame retardants have a lot to offer - whether flame retardants are environmentally friendly or not has nothing to do with halogen content, bromine flame retardant families include more than 70 different chemicals, they have different characteristics. A small number of halogen-containing flame retardants are environmentally risky, but one flame retardant does not represent the entire flame retardant family. Each chemical has its own uniqueness and cannot simply be classified as a family based on the elements it contains, which is considered to have a common attribute. The role of flame retardants is to prevent the occurrence of fire, delay the arrival of the time of the explosion, giving people more opportunities to escape. Fire itself is toxic, and the main causes of death are toxic gases such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen cyanide and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
these toxic gases are produced whether or not you use flame retardants or brominated flame retardants. Therefore, bromine flame retardants not only do not aggravate the toxicity of fire, but also from the point of view of curbing the occurrence of fires and reducing the production of toxic gases, it is important for environmental protection. At the same time, the U.S. Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the European Regulations on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Limitation of Chemicals (REACH), and a number of other laws and regulations around the world have strict regulations on chemicals, including flame retardants. After rigorous evaluation, most bromine flame retardants can be used safely in consumer products.
It's worth noting that BSEF's research on some bromine flame retardants, such as teboxybromodes, went a step further, and
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found that it could meet more stringent environmental and human health requirements than the above regulations. For example, when used to print circuit boards, tybromobiphenol A is a reactive flame retardant that eventually produces brominated epoxy resins. Such circuit boards are extremely low risk and very safe for public exposure to chemicals. Not all bromine flame retardants are persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Only one type of bromine flame retardant currently in production and sale is POPs, or HBCD. The Stockholm Convention of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) officially listed it as POPs in 2013.。