To comply with California law, furniture makers treat the foam in cushions with flame-retardant chemicals. An average-sized sofa may contain up to two pounds of flame-retardants, which are now turning up in household dust, blood and breast milk. But efforts to change California's law have been blocked by the chemical industry.
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