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Chemicals in car interiors may cause cancer — and they’re required by US law: (thehill.com)
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[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Its not so they stop from catching fire, its so they dont instantly go up in flames, allowing the people inside to hopefully escape.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago

This, everyone should go lookup those fire department videos where they demonstrate furniture catching fire with and without flame retardant. The ones without are scary AF