Scientific Understanding Of Environmental Protection Of Flame Retardants

In recent years, halogen-free flame retardants have become more and more popular. For a long time, even today, halogen flame retardants are harmful and harmful, halogen-free flame retardants are environmental protection, is the future of flame retardants the wrong understanding is popular. Nonhalogenation of flame retardants = environmental protection is often touted.
First, the negative effects of certain flame retardants were taken out of context and extended to all halogenated flame retardants; Second, to distort and generalize some scientific research results; Third, because the difficulty coefficient of testing the structure of chemical substances exceeds the difficulty coefficient of testing the original element, we only test whether the chemical substances contain halogens to evaluate in order to better convenience and speed; Fourth, is used by some profit-oriented myself, companies and research offices, spread halogen harm halogen-free is environmental protection, forcing downstream manufacturers to abandon the application of all halogenated flame retardants, to carry out marketing and promotion. In fact, of all 70 commercially available bromo-based flame retardants, only two, TBBA(tetrabromobisphenol A) and HBCD(hexabromocyclododecane), have been identified as hazardous in accordance with the internationally applicable chemical classification and labeling regulations. However, some halogen-free flame retardants, such as most phosphate esters and some polyphosphates and sub-polyphosphates, contain harmful labels of natural environment. Therefore, there is no scientific justification for identifying environmentally friendly molecules with certain kinds of chemicals!
There are no policies and regulations for all halogen families to specify, exempt, apply halogen-free. The inevitable result is that no halogenation can only bring a lot of harm to the social development. First, it makes the definition confused and deceiving the masses. The second is the destruction of chemical evaluation and system management based on scientific research, fraud supervision agencies adopt a one-sidedness of various policies; The third is to force manufacturers to choose immature halogen-free products, or reduce the level of flame retardant, and then increase the risk of fire accidents, threatening life and capital safety; Fourth, increase the excess detection and inspection, increase the cost of manufacturers, and finally increase the pressure of customers; Fifth, get rid of the original distribution of modifier supply and sales market, promote the total number of modifier dealers to reduce, centralized supply, expand the risk of monopoly; Sixth, it magnifies the difference between Chinese electronic equipment manufacturers and world-class international manufacturers, weakening the competitiveness of domestic brands.
The field of flame retardants should be diversified and colorful. Different flame retardants have different available industries, and they should be selected by the sales market in accordance with the framework of control policies and regulations, rather than focusing on non-halogenation in spite of some difficulties.