The Safety Of Children’s Nap Mats

[Biloban]

SACRAMENTO – A new California regulation took effect this month requiring manufacturers of children’s foam-padded sleeping products, such as toddler nap mats with flame-retardant chemicals to look at ways of eliminating or finding safer alternatives to the potentially harmful chemicals.https://www.biloban.com/collections/toddler-nap-mat



This is the first Priority Product regulation under the Department of Toxic Substances Control’s pioneering Safer Consumer Products program, which challenges manufacturers to make their products safer.https://www.biloban.com/collections/toddler-nap-mat



“California’s green chemistry law emphasizes the benefits of product reformulation and the promise of DTSC’s Safer Consumer Products Program for a healthier future for Californians,” said DTSC Director Barbara A. Lee.https://www.biloban.com/collections/toddler-nap-mat



The new rule focuses on children’s foam-padded sleeping products, such as toddler nap mats, that contain the flame retardants TDCPP or TCEP. DTSC determined that this product-chemical combination has the potential to cause significant adverse health impacts. Both TDCPP and TCEP are known to cause cancer and have been associated with endocrine disruption and reproductive and developmental toxicity.https://www.biloban.com/collections/toddler-nap-mat