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ACC Lied About Lobbying Role on Flame Retardants, Consultant Says

"The chemical industry’s powerful trade group, the American Chemistry Council, has long maintained that it had nothing to do with an enormously successful but deceitful lobbying effort in state capitals to defend the use of potentially ineffective and toxic flame retardants in furniture. Now, in a rare breaking of ranks, a top industry consultant is discrediting that story."

Source: Ctr for Public Integrity, 05/13/2015

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