Healthy Children’s Furniture & Organic Baby Bedding: Q Collection Junior offers non-toxic baby furniture and organic cotton bedding that’s People Safe and Planet Safe
|
|
Q Collection Junior™'s goal is to be a resource and partner with you
in making your home a safe and healthy environment for your children. And since
we're aware that many parents often don't know where to look, or even what
questions to ask, we felt it important to provide this resource for you.
Below are the areas that we think are important considerations when bringing a new furniture or bedding product into your home. We also explain specifically how our materials are different from others.
Furniture and textiles are often listed as one of the major potential contributors to poor indoor air quality in the home. There are several reasons why this is an important consideration:
- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists indoor air quality
as 3x worse than outdoor air quality and one of their top 5 areas of concern.
- Infants and children are most vulnerable to toxic substances in the home.
Their internal systems are rapidly developing and, relative to body weight
and lung surface, they breathe more air per pound than adults. Children are
also known to be exposed to higher levels of toxic chemicals than adults in
the same location because they are closer to the ground where higher concentrations
of chemicals like formaldehyde
can be found.
- Our children's generation is facing an unprecedented rise in chronic disease
and illness such as cancer, autism, asthma, birth defects, ADD / ADHD, and
learning and developmental disabilities. The scientific community has linked
many of these outcomes to unregulated toxic chemicals that surround us in our
homes.
Daunting, to be sure, but parents can dramatically lower risks in the home.
One way is through the furniture and bedding choices you make. Every material
we use has been reviewed and approved by a toxicologist advisor.
We are also the first children's furniture design company to independently
test our materials for optimized indoor air quality.
The other important sources of indoor air pollution in the home include
vinyl flooring, new carpet and carpet glue, and some wall coverings. For more
specific information please visit our rescources area.
At any point if you have a question on terms used below or anywhere on the
site, please refer to our glossary.
Children's Furniture
Note that there are more and more companies claiming their products are zero or low VOC. Unfortunately not all low-VOC materials are created equal. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently exempts several known toxic VOCs from being included in official measurements. You can currently call a product low VOC that is hardly low VOC if you include exempt materials. The exemption is not based on any scientific criteria and has been described by a prominent health official as "poorly based science that makes a mockery of freshman chemistry at college." Our criteria includes ALL VOCs.
Baby Bedding
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
