Are there monsters hiding under your bed?
The truth is there are not monsters hiding "UNDER" your bed, there are monsters hiding "IN" your bed!
This article is written for the occasional person who tells me, "I don't care about the chemicals in my mattress." Are you kidding me? If you knew what I knew, you would change your mind. To understand what's in your mattress, it is best to know the history of your mattress.
Where did polyurethane come from? Who invented it? Why?
The pioneering work on polyurethane polymers was conducted by Otto Bayer and his coworkers in 1937 at the laboratories of I.G. Farben in Leverkusen, Germany. During the planning of the invasion of Czechoslovakia and Poland, IG Farben cooperated closely with Nazi officials and directed which chemical plants should be secured and delivered to IG Farben. In 1941, an investigation exposed a "marriage" cartel between John D. Rockefeller's United States-based Standard OilCo. and I.G. Farben.
IG Farben held the patent for the pesticide Zyklon B[citation needed] (used in Holocaust gas chambers), and owned 42.2 percent (in shares) of Degesch (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung) which manufactured it. IG Farben also had managers in Degesch's Managing Committee. Of the 24 directors of IG Farben indicted in the so-called IG Farben Trial (1947–1948) before a U.S. military tribunal at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials, 13 were sentenced to prison terms between one and eight years. Some of those indicted in the trial were subsequently made leaders of the post-war companies that split off from IG Farben, including those who were sentenced at Nuremberg.
The OSS (now known as the CIA) brought these German scientist, who were also convicted war criminals, to America to take us to the Moon with further development of rocket fuel. It was called Operation Paper Clip.
President Truman set limits to the people that were brought over, so false employment and political biographies for the scientists were created. The JIOA also expunged from the public record the scientists' Nazi Party memberships and régime affiliations. Once “bleached” of their Nazism, the US Government granted the scientists security clearance to work in the United States. Later regret because many of these criminals were “menace to the security of the Allied Forces”.
They developed products you used in your home everyday and almost everything requires chemical flame retardants from televisions, computers, furniture, toys, children's pajamas, bedding, carpets and mattresses the list goes on and on.
Other PU pioneers were Union Carbide and Mobay, a U.S. Monsanto/Bayer joint venture. In 1960 more than 45000 metric tons of flexible polyurethane foams were introduced into the market... Polyurethane is not regulated by OSHA for carcinogenicity. Polyurethane polymer is a combustible solid and can be ignited if exposed to an open flame.
This is why mattresses are so highly flammable, they are made from petroleum oil. People don't have a chance to get out of bed because there mattresses are so flammable. Now the chemical companies are making even more money selling chemical flame retardants, they use pesticides such as Antimony (rat poison) as as flame retardant.
Toluene diisocyanate: 2,4-Toluene diisocyanate is primarily used as a chemical intermediate in the production of polyurenthane products. 2,4-Toluene diisocyanate is extremely toxic from acute (short-term) and chronic (long-term) exposures. Acute exposure to high levels of 2,4-toluene diisocyanate in humans, via inhalation, results in severe irritation of the skin and eyes and affects the respiratory, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems (CNS). Chronic inhalation exposure to 2,4-toluene diisocyanate in humans has resulted in significant decreases in lung function in workers, an asthma-like reaction characterized by wheezing, dyspnea, and bronchial constriction. Animal studies have reported significantly increased incidences of tumors of the pancreas, liver, and mammary glands from exposure to 2,4-toluene diisocyanate via gavage (experimentally placing the chemical in the stomach). The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified 2,4-toluene diisocyanate as a Group 2B, possible human carcinogen.
This is only a partial list of monsters, they all have names. 1/3 of all mattresses are made of chemicals, they are used in the production of polyurethane, solvents that glue layers together and flame retardants to make your mattress not so flammable.
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Posted by Healthy Sleep Blog at 8/3/2011 9:54 PM 
Categories: Chemicals in mattresses
Tags: MONSTERS IN BED POLYURETHANE FOAM AGENT ORANGE PESTICIDES ZYKLON B TOXI
Categories: Chemicals in mattresses
Tags: MONSTERS IN BED POLYURETHANE FOAM AGENT ORANGE PESTICIDES ZYKLON B TOXI
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