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Improving Mattress Safety Standards

he Environmental Working Group (EWG) announced in February 2024 that it has issued its licensing criteria for verifying safe and healthy mattresses. For companies to be verified, they must meet a range of standards developed by EWG. Mattresses must be free from PFAS (“forever chemicals”), chemical flame retardants, fragrances, known carcinogens, and chemicals classified as posing a cancer risk, as well as comply with the standards of emissions for

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