Flame retardants to be removed from nap mats
A Minnesota company has pledged to remove flame-retardant chemicals from the children's nap mats it sells in California as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday by the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland.
Peerless Plastics will pay $25,000 to the environmental health organization, which sued the corporation and dozens of others for selling products with chlorinated Tris, a recognized carcinogen in California.
The lawsuits were filed under Proposition 65, California's consumer-safety law mandating that warning labels be placed on items with hazardous amounts of chemicals that are known to cause cancer or birth defects.
