reg. BFRs
reg. BFRs
Brominated Flame Retardants |
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| Table 5.2 The requirements of four
important ecolabels and the number of awarded products and applicants. The table
represents the status by mid-October 1998
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The Nordic Swan 2) (Scandinavia &
Finland)
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The Flower
(EU)
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The Blue Angel (Germany)
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TCO 95 (International)
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| Personal computers and monitors 1) | Requirement reg. BFRs | No PBBs or PBDE in plastic parts > 25g in housing/enclosure. /80/ | No organically bound bromine in parts >25 g /81/ 9) | No organohalogens (especially as FRs) in casing. /82/ | No organically bound bromine in parts >25 g 4). /83/ |
| Applicants: | 4 | - | 11 | 75 | |
| Products: | 17 | - | 77 | 387 3) | |
| Copying machines | Requirement reg. BFRs | No PBBs or PBDE in plastic parts > 25 g in housing and chassis 4). /84/ | No label | No PBBs or PBDE in parts > 50 g. /85/ | - |
| Applicants: | 3 | - | 17 | - | |
| Products: | 32 | - | 216 | - | |
| Printers and fax machines | Requirement reg. BFRs | No BRF in parts > 25g of the housing and chassis. /86/ | No label | No PBBs or PBDE at all in casing and case parts 5). /87/ | - |
| Applicants: | 0 | - | 6 6) | - | |
| Products: | 0 | - | 16 | - | |
| TV-sets | Requirement reg. BFRs | No label | No label | No PBBs or PBDE at all in casing and case parts 5). /88/ | - |
| Applicants: | - | - | 0 | - | |
| Products: | - | - | 0 | - | |
| Refrigerators and freezers | Requirement reg. BFRs | No brominated paraffin or PBDE in plastic materials. /89/ | No demands reg. BFRs |
No label | - |
| Applicants: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Dishwashers | Requirement reg. BFRs | No brominated paraffins or PBDE in plastic materials. /90/ | No demands reg. BFRs |
No Label | - |
| Applicants: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Chain saws | Requirement reg. BFRs | No Label | No Label | No PBBs or PBDE may be used. /91/ | - |
| Applicants: | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Products: | - | - | 4 | - | |
| Windows | Requirement reg. BFRs | No actively added brominated paraffins or PBDE in plastic parts. /92/ | No label | No Label | - |
| Applicants: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | 0 | - | - | - | |
| Floorings | Requirement reg. BFRs | No actively added PBDE in product. /93/ | No label | No Label | - |
| Applicants: | 7 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | >46 7) | - | - | - | |
| Building materials: chip-, and fibre boards | Requirement reg. BFRs | No halogenated organic flame retardants allowed. /94/ | No label | No halogen or organohalogens except contamination from production. /95/, /96/ | - |
| Applicants: | 6 | - | 6 | - | |
| Products: | >32 7), 8) | - | 7 | - | |
| Textiles (clothes only) | Requirement reg. BFRs | No brominated flame retardants in amounts exceeding 1% w/w. /97/ | No flame retardants that are assigned or may be assigned a number of specific the risk phrases (except reactive FRs) 9) /98/ | No label | - |
| Applicants: | 4 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | numbers not relevant 10) | - | - | - | |
| Wooden furniture and fitments | Requirement reg. BFRs | No PBDE allowed in plastic materials. /99/ | No label | No label | - |
| Applicants: | 7 | - | - | - | |
| Products: | numbers not relevant 10) | - | - | - | |
| Coffee machines | Requirement reg. BFRs | Under development: No FRs at all. | No label | Under development: No FRs at all. | - |
| Applicants: | - | - | - | - | |
| Products: | - | - | - | - | |
| Cassettes and cartridges | Requirement reg. BFRs | No label | No label | Casing must not contain any organohalogens especially as FRs. | - |
| Applicants: | - | - | 1 | - | |
| Products: | - | - | 1 | - |
| 1) | Portable computers are excluded in the Blue Angel |
| 2) | The licenses under the Nordic Swan are given by the national authorities in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland. Therefore the number of applicants and approved products varies among the countries. In general, the number of applicants and hence product is largest in Sweden, and therefore the numbers in the table refers to products and applicants approved in Sweden. |
| 3) | Of this, 3 computers and 384 monitors. |
| 4) | Flame retardants used in parts weighing more than 25 g in housing/enclosure and chassis, circuit boards must be specified (with CAS. no). |
| 5) | No organohalogens must be used in casing, except technical unavoidable parts and parts larger than 25 g. |
| 6) | The Blue Angle label does only apply to printers, not to fax machines. |
| 7) | The number of approved products is at minimum the given figure. |
| 8) | The category includes gypsum boards. |
| 9) | Awaits formal adoption and publication. |
| 10) | All the awarded products are designed for uses where no flame retardants normally are needed. |