I am too. I have been trying to track down exactly what is uesd in my new matress. My wife is 22 weeks pregnat (our 2nd) so I am ever more concerned. One link had some interesting info.
http://www.checnet.org/healthehouse/education/articles-detail.asp?Main_ID=359 Jeromie Joe Street wrote: >Very curious! Phosphorus, Antimony and Arsenic are dopants commonly >used in the semiconductor industry and are extremely toxic when they >combine with hydrogen to form hydrides. Arsine (the hydride of arsenic) >is toxic at a level of 50 parts per billion. That's about the range of >sensitivity of the human nose to smell anything. What compounds would be >used in a mattress though? Bizzare! > >Joe > >Jeromie Reeves wrote: >Snip > > > >>Toxic Gases in Mattresses >> >>Dr. Jim Sprott, OBE, a New Zealand scientist and chemist, states with >>certainty that crib death is caused by toxic gases, which can be >>generated from a baby's mattress. Chemical compounds containing >>phosphorus, arsenic and antimony have been added to mattresses as fire >>retardants and for other purposes since the early 1950's. A fungus that >>commonly grows in bedding can interact with these chemicals to create >>poisonous gases (Richardson 1994). >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
