Green Screen for Safer Chemicals Report Evaluating Flame Retardants for TV Enclosures (

Clean Air Project

Table of contents :
Cover
……Page 1
Title Page……Page 3
Acknowledgments……Page 4
Table of Contents……Page 5
Executive Summary……Page 6
1. Consumers and Citizens Want Safer Chemicals……Page 8
2. Transparent Method Needed for Identifying Safer Chemicals……Page 11
3. Guiding Principles for the Green Screen for Safer Chemicals……Page 14
4.1. The Green Screen list of hazards……Page 17
5.1. identify alternatives to DecaBDe in TVs……Page 32
6. Conclusion……Page 43
Endnotes……Page 45
4.2. Define Levels of Concern—Low, Moderate, and High—for Each Hazard……Page 21
4.3. Specify hazard criteria for each Benchmark in the Green Screen……Page 27
4.4. Using the Green Screen……Page 28
5.2. hazard assessment of Phosphorous-based and DecaBDe flame retardants……Page 33
5.3. apply the Green Screen Benchmarks to Phosphorous-based and DecaBDe flame retardants (and their breakdown products)……Page 36
Appendix 1: Glossary of Hazards (included in the Green Screen)……Page 50
Appendix 2: Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals: Examples of Hazard Categories……Page 51
Appendix 3: Systems for Classifying the Carcinogenicity Potential of Chemicals……Page 52
Appendix 4: Screening Level Toxicology and Exposure Summary……Page 53
Appendix 5: Hazard Review Summaries of Bisphenol A, Phenol, Resorcinol, PentaBDE, OctaBDE, and DecaBDE……Page 54
Potential human health effects……Page 55
environmental fate……Page 58
Potential human health effects……Page 59
environmental fate……Page 63
Potential human health effects……Page 64
environmental fate……Page 66
Potential human health effects……Page 67
environmental fate……Page 69
Potential human health effects……Page 70
environmental fate……Page 73
Potential human health effects……Page 74
environmental fate……Page 77
References……Page 79
Back Cover……Page 82