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Report: Ikea to change flame retardant chemical

Will phase out chlorinated tris type substances

Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, June 25, 2010

HIGH POINT — An Ikea official said the Swedish home furnishings retailer is phasing out all chlorinated tris type flame retardants in its products by this fall, according to a blog by Slate.com reporter Florence Williams.

Bjorn Frithiof, a company chemical specialist in Sweden, is quoted as saying that Ikea will replace the tris with "an organo-phosphorous compound which gets incorporated into the polymer matrix of the foam filling."

The blog reports on a theory that the chlorinated version of tris, an organic compound, escapes foams and is classified as a possible human carcinogen by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as a moderate cancer hazard.

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