Now Canada is poised to add flame tards or polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) to its toxic-substances list.
The animal findings on their own would not be a major concern, except for a second disturbing discovery: Flame tards are not staying put in consumer products. They have been migrating from mattresses and computers, in ways that are not completely understood, into the environment and into people.
It's been a strange odyssey for flame tards from lifesaver to possible health hazard.
At least they don't have to die frosty. I train them!