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Brominated Flame Retardants
Appendix 4
Brominated Flame Retardants Registered in the Danish Product Register
In Denmark products containing chemicals classified as dangerous have to be notified to
the Danish Product Register. The Product Register is a shared responsibility of the
Directorate of the Danish Working Environment Serv-ice and the Danish Environmental
Protection Agency. Of the brominated flame retardants, only vinylbromide is classified as
dan-gerous, and consequently notification of products containing other BFRs is only
required, if the products in addition contains classified chemicals. An assessment of 60
brominated organic compounds (pure compounds or mixtures), that can be used as flame
retardants, was carried out in September 1998. The result of the assessment is shown in
table 1. The assessment revealed 8 registered compounds with a total registered
consumption of 4.7 tonnes. Detailed information on the use of the compounds is kept
confidential.
Table 1
Consumption and export of BFRs in products registered in the Danish Product Register
September 1998.
| CAS no |
Name |
Consumption tonnes |
Export tonnes |
| 79-94-7 |
Tetrabromobisphenol A |
- 1) |
- |
| 118-79-6 |
Tribromophenol |
..2) |
.. |
| 593-60-2 |
Vinylbromide |
- |
- |
| 1163-19-5 |
Decabromodiphenyl ether |
1.8 |
0.1 |
| 3194-55-6 |
Hexabromocyclododecane |
.. |
.. |
| 3234-02-4 |
2,3-Dibromo-2-butene-1,4-diol |
0.002 |
0 |
| 3296-90-0 |
Dibromoneopentyl glycol |
.. |
.. |
| 25637-99-4 |
Hexabromocyclododecane (unspec.) |
1.5 |
2.6 |
| 32534-81-9 |
Pentabromodiphenyl ether |
0.5 |
0 |
| 32536-52-0 |
Octabromodiphenyl ether |
- |
- |
| 32588-76-4 |
N,N'-Ethylene-bis-(tetrabromophtalimide) |
.. |
.. |
| 32844-27-2 |
Tetrabromobisphenol A diglycidyl-ether epoxy oligomer |
- |
- |
| 37853-59-1 |
1,2-Bis(2,4,6,-tribromophenoxy)ethane |
- |
- |
| Total (confidential) 1) |
0.87 |
24 |
| Total |
4.7 |
26.7 |
| 1) |
A hyphen indicates that one or more products, but no quantities,
are registered. The quantities may not be registered, because notification of the product
is not required or the use of the product or the flame retardant is temporarly suspended. |
| 2) |
Two dots indicate that consumption and export of the compound is
kept confidential. Total consumption and export of these compounds are indicated in the
table. |
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