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Brominated Flame Retardants

 

 

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

 

   

 

 

 

The Nordic Swan 2) (Scandinavia & Finland)

The Flower          (EU)

The Blue Angel (Germany)

TCO 95 (International)

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.