A reason to feel safe: Fire retardant chemicals are building up in humans, especially in women's breasts.
There was a great article about this in the Wall Street Journal this week. This article went on to explain how many chemicals, including the above mentioned retardants, were developed before a 1970's chemical safety rule went into effect and aren't subject to the same scrutiny as chemicals developed since then.
Now the EU is trying to pass laws saying, "Lets apply the same scrutiny to thousands more chemicals." and the Bush administration is trying hard to prevent this from passing out of fear that it could become a global standard and disrupt global trade.
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