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Anna Wallner and Kristina Matisic of The Shopping TV (Canada) camps inside a mattress store to test coil spring beds and mattresses; and then give best-buying tips:

While the federal government pushes through with its new mandate for mattress safety standards effective July 1, there are those that say the safety precautions set may actually be more dangerous. The chemicals to achieve a flame-proof mattress are said to cause more harm than good, ten years down the line. Below are the points People for Cleaner Beds Org have made regarding this:

The chemicals used to flameproof mattresses have never been studied for human exposure risk in this application. (Except now the CPSC has released a limited study.)

We know almost all the chemicals to flameproof mattresses are acutely toxic and many also cause cancer.

The science of Toxicology uses high-dose short-term exposure on various animals to predict the effect of low-dose long-term exposure on humans. This is exactly the risk in mattresses, close chronic exposure eight hour per day for the rest of our and our children’s lives.

The developing fetus and young child is particularly vulnerable to certain environmental toxins. Over the past three decades, researchers have found that remarkably low-level exposures to these toxins are linked with less overt symptoms of toxicity—intellectual impairments, behavioral problems, spontaneous abortions, or preterm births.

Antimony Trioxide is the most commonly used flame retardant in mattresses to meet the new law. Antimony is a heavy metal like Lead with similar toxic effects. Antimony is proven to leach from mattresses and linked to heart damage, cancer, and SIDS.

Boric Acid, also a roach killer, is commonly used as a flame retardant in mattresses to meet the new law. It is known to attack the developing fetus and testicles as it primary targets. In addition to death, birth defects, infertility, and sterility, studies show overexposure reduces sexual activity in humans.

Children could be poisoned from sucking on a Boric Acid mattress. There are 6,463 cases of Boric Acid Poisoning in the US each year.

Formaldehyde, Bromine, and other dangerous chemicals are also used in many systems. It is difficult if not impossible to find the truth. Even mattress manufacturers usually don’t know which chemicals are present in their flame barrier systems. We can’t find any, but even if safe systems exist, all mattresses must be safe or we will eventually harm or kill a percentage of our people. If 33% prove toxic, 100 Million people are harmed. If only 1% prove toxic, it is still 3 Million people harmed or killed.

We should learn from our toxic legacies of the past. We have made previous mistakes with flame retardants such as PCB’s banned in the 70’s, Tris, Asbestos, and now PBDE’s are being found in peoples bodies and women’s breast milk in alarming and growing amounts.

The chemical industry estimates we save up to 960 people per year with the 1.2 Billion pounds of flame retardants the US uses annually. Now we will be required to sleep in them too. We have already killed 300,000 people, and continue to kill 10,000 annually, with Asbestos alone.

Consumers will be forced to pay an average of $100 more for every new mattress purchased to meet this law.

The innerspring mattress industry through their trade association ISPA went to the CPSC and asked for this law. It seems clear it benefits the large companies by restraining competition, forcing the smaller companies out of business, and raising prices, revenue, and profits.

Even the man who started and wrote this law in California, Whitney Davis, is now having second thoughts: “The Problem: the only chemicals they can use to achieve compliance are listed as toxic to humans by the EPA.” and “You don’t know until 10 years down the road and there’s a problem,” he said. “We feel responsible.”

ARCHDALE, N.C. (WGHP) — A company most often associated with hot water is getting into bed, literally, with a local foam mattress company.Jacuzzi, the manufacturer of hot tubs, baths and showers, announced Friday it will produce a gel memory foam with Archdale, N.C.’s Thurmo-Pudic USA, a company known for creating state-of-the-art memory foam found in some mattresses.

“The gel visco (foam) is more supportive than the contemporary visco that’s used in the industry,” explained Jacuzzi president and CEO Tom Koos. “It’s cooler. That means a lot in the summer months, because visco has a tendency to be rather warm.”

Thurmo-Pudic, now known as Jacuzzi Sleep System, is already planning for orders by expanding its factories.

The partnership initially will bring 46 jobs to the area, with an additional 100 possible.

“As we compete globally, a collaboration of partnerships is the way of the future, and it’s the only way we can survive anymore,” said Beverly Nelson.

via My Fox

I appreciate the absurd. Which is why this video was interesting to me. Watch:

I wonder — how thick is it exactly; and what brand it is?