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Concluding Questions:
1. I did not find any flame retardant products in my dorm.
2. The most abundant product found to be dosed in flame retardants should be sofa in the common area and foldable chairs in the meeting house.
3. I say chair is probably used more often than the sofa in my dorm since people usually do there homework and other activities on chair.
4. I think both the sofa and chair shares the same amount of risk of affecting health with flame retardants. People are constantly exposed to this type of furniture therefore the exposure rate is fairly high and increase the chance of health risk.
5. After watching TOXIC HOT SEAT, I think the most appropriate way to address the issue of PBDEs are to limit the amount of them adding into the furniture and try to develop other form of flame retardants that would not cause so many health issues. Also more research should be done before those products are added into our furnitures to prevent such health risk.
6. My concern is that although flame retardants are bad for human health and environment health, they do stop the fire from expanding and prevent fire incidents from happening. If we decided that PBDEs have more harm than they have in benefit, what sort of way do we have to stop fire incidents from happening?
