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Summary: All mattresses should be flame retardant, and it is important to check the fire safety label to make sure. Find out about mattress fire safety with tips from the owner of a mattress store in this free video on how to buy a mattress.
Anthony Danna is the manager and owner of Danna’s Mattress For Less located both in Upland, California, and Rancho Cucamonga, California. Danna has been in the business of selling...read more
"Just recently they made a big change in our our marketplace our the qualifications of building a mattress. All mattresses are fire retardant to an open flame for twenty minutes now. So this came about by a certain amount of people were dying in bed from you know smoking in bed so they made it this law that all mattresses have to be fire retardant to an open flame for twenty minutes. So just to give you some information. You'll find make sure that your mattress is fire retardant to an open flame by looking at the law label on the back of the mattress. And it will say that it's FR compliant. And so you want to make sure that if you're buying a bed that it's that in California that it does have that seal on the back of it. This is an example of a law label, and as you can see it says right here in the small right, "This mattress meets the requirements of the sixteen CFR part sixteen three three federal flame ability open flame act." So you can tell that this bed is made the way it's supposed to. And it is in requirement by government law."
eHow Article: Mattress Fire Safety
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ignets said
on 10/11/2009 Glad you found this video so that you know what NOT TO BUY. Fire retardant mattresses are treated with chemicals that may keep you safe from fire but will DEFINITELY MAKE YOU SICK on a nightly basis. Manufacturers do not have to reveal what chemicals they use to treat the mattress and they do pose a health threat. This is something you spend 1/3 of your life in - DO NOT RISK BEING POISONED BY IT!!!!