Thank you for your comments, which I completely sympathise with. However, let me explain what is behind all this. First, I'm not "presenting theories still under investigation" – everything I'm talking about is proven, much of the evidence for which, as said, is in the public domain. Similarly, the same issue – flame retardants in furniture – was raised very publicly in the US with the result that immense pressure from the public resulted in a change to their flammability standard which means that anyone there can now go buy a sofa or a mattress that does not contain flame retardants. The public here can do the same, e.g. write to your MP about it.
Second, this has in fact been taken to the authorities – in multiple ways and forms. However, the authorities are refusing to act. I have evidence that this is at least partly down to corruption; the rest perhaps to the general reluctance of UK civil servants to do anything that might put their pensions at risk.
The flame retardant industry is immensely powerful – the same companies (that operate in the UK) bought officials and bribed medical experts in the US to lie, both to support the fire safety claims of the industry (which are largely bogus) and to lobby for more flame retardants in home products. The US public was alerted by a group working for change, including the Green Science Policy Institute, the Chicago Tribune, US firefighters (who had realised they were suffering far higher cancer rates than normal, almost certainly down to toxic fumes from burning flame retardants), and the governor of California.
Gradually, this kind of reaction is coming together here. However, the danger is greater too. We have higher levels of flame retardants in our homes than the US did and a government department (BEIS) that is unusually (perhaps) incompetent and in the case of some officials there possibly corrupt. Without going into detail there are finally signs that the media will do more than it has been willing to in the past. This is a massive scandal, after all, and the mainstream media is not so keen as it used to be to invite possible law suits by exposing the truth. In the US, at least flame retardants were used to comply with a standard that worked. Here, the scandal is massively greater since BEIS itself proved 5 years ago that ours doesn't even work.
In the meantime, I believe the public needs to know the truth, especially where babies and children are concerned, since the evidence – and there's plenty of it – shows that the young are particularly vulnerable to the effects of flame retardants. By the way, the flame retardant industry does not deny that their chemicals get into our blood and stay there; they just say they aren't doing any harm. A claim that is contradicted by the cycle of them putting a chemical on the market claiming it's safe only for it to be banned some years down the line as being toxic, when it's more neutrally assessed. Not to mention the hundreds of pieces of research that show a very close association, if not a direct link, between these chemicals and a huge range of illnesses.
I appreciate people on this site will be alarmed by all this. But, as said, it's better that they are, then they can act. And the way to act is as I indicated before: buy from the EU where they don't allow flame retardants in furniture; or, if you can afford it, buy UK mattresses and sofas that don't contain these chemicals (but make sure you research/question the company concerned thoroughly because some organic/natural producers do cheat).