FW: CBS Chicago - Toxic Mattresses, Employees Sick

 

 

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From: News@PeopleForCleanBeds.org [mailto:News@PeopleForCleanBeds.org]
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 6:51 PM
To: mark@strobel.com
Subject: CBS Chicago - Toxic Mattresses, Employees Sick

 

 

News Release: CBS Chicago -- Toxic Mattresses, Employees Sick

CBS News in Chicago ran a story on 9/24/07 titled: "What Might Be In Your Mattress? Could Mattress Safety Measures Make You Sick?

The national fireproof mattress regulation became effective Jul-07. The CBS story interviewed Dr. Doris Rapp, MD, who says unsafe, several Simmons mattress factory employees who are getting sick just from handling the new flame retardant materials, Serta who admits using Boric Acid (Roach Killer), Simmons who won’t disclose the chemicals, and Mark Strobel who has campaigned and generated news against the new flameproof mattress regulation for four years. The story concludes by telling people the only way to get a chemical free mattress is with a doctor’s prescription.

The CBS story quotes several Simmons mattress factory employees complaining of "Breathing Problems, Sharp Chest Pains, Sinus Problems, Irritated Eyes, Chronic Sore Throats, Bloody Noses, and Painful Skin Rashes." In one scene a Simmons executive says they offer employees protective equipment as the reporter picks up a dust mask/respirator.

For four years Strobel has led the fight against the regulation and generated major news recently from all the networks including CBS, NBC, ABC, and FOX in cities across the country from New York to San Diego. Plus print news coverage from the American Chiropractic Association, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and more. The Chicago Tribune exposed many risks of the regulation. It got admissions from industry and top manufacturers that they really are using toxic chemicals to flameproof mattresses including, Antimony (Arsenic), Boric Acid (Roach Killer), Silica Glass, and Ammonium Polyphosphate. Plus it quoted several top scientists and doctors who say this is unsafe. As a result of exercising free speech to expose government wrongdoing, Strobel, also a mattress manufacturer, is now being audited by the CPSC for compliance with the new fireproof bed regulation.

It is not just Simmons, in addition to many individuals reporting getting sick from new mattresses we have heard from employees at another different top brand large mattress factory who are also complaining of all the above health problems. It appears both companies are using a popular system everyone tries to say contain no chemicals and is rayon based. It appears both contain Silica Glass as well as other chemicals, probably Antimony (Arsenic). Like Asbestos it may be the tiny glass particles causing the problems from only a few months of exposure. Asbestos workers complained early on of problems but it took 40 years and half a million deaths to prove harmful. (Everyone sleeps on a mattress)

As a recent ABC news story points out: "Many manufacturers are predicting a backlash once consumers start to investigate what's really lying under their sheets with them."

We hope you will do a story so more people will learn the truth about the toxic and cancer causing chemicals now being used to flameproof mattresses with no labeling requirements. Please visit our websites to learn more, see links to all the news stories, watch the news videos (especially CBS Chicago), and call me.

Mark Strobel,
President, Strobel Technologies, www.Strobel.com ,
Director, People For Clean Beds, www.PeopleForCleanBeds.org ,

3131 Industrial Pkwy, Jeffersonville IN 47130,
email: Mark@CleanBeds.org ,
fax: 812-282-6528,
phone: 812-280-6000

 

 

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Additional Links:


TV news video clips, CBS Chicago, ABC Denver, FOX New York, NBC, more TV cities, Magazine, and Newspaper Stories about us including Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, and more
http://www.peopleforcleanbeds.org/making-news.htm  

CPSC Table 1 of Chemicals really used to fireproof mattresses:
http://www.strobel.com/chemicals-in-beds.htm
 


Proof of Claims: See these facts and more firsthand in government documents at:
http://www.peopleforcleanbeds.org/CPSC_Risk_Assessment_Highlights_w-notes_v2.pdf

Doctor, Public, and Retailer Comments:
http://www.strobel.com/retailer-comments.htm   

Boric Acid Health Risks:
http://www.peopleforcleanbeds.org/boric_acid_risks.htm

Antimony Health Risks:
http://www.strobel.com/antimony_risks.htm  

Pounds of Poison in Crib and Adult Mattresses:
http://www.strobel.com/Pounds%20Boric%20Acid.htm 

Proponents Say and Rebuttals:
http://www.peopleforcleanbeds.org/Proponents-Say.htm


Comments of People Sick from fireproof mattresses:
http://www.strobel.com/people_sick.htm  

Strobel's History of Fighting the Regulation
http://www.peopleforcleanbeds.org/fight_history.htm





Mark Strobel, President, Strobel Technologies, www.Strobel.com , Director, People For Clean Beds, www.PeopleForCleanBeds.org , 3131 Industrial Pkwy, Jeffersonville IN 47130, email: Mark@CleanBeds.org , fax: 812-282-6528, phone: 812-280-6000

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