MacBook: Tetrabromobisphenol A Inside

Thanks to MArtin for this info.
Greenpeace has launched a major action against IT/computer manufacturer for some times already. They have asked an independent danish laboratory to perform toxicological test on several notebooks.
Those tests have identified numerous toxic compounds, in large amount in HP notebook but also in MacBook. According to the analysis, customer-dedicated Apple notebook model is massively contaminated with tetrabromobisphenol A. This compound is widely used and incorporated in polymers as a reactive or additive flame retardant.
If the WHO has concluded that

Contact of the general population is with products made from these polymers and would not result in significant uptake of TBBPA. Furthermore, the acute and repeated dose toxicity of TBBPA is very low. TBBPA is poorly absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. The risk for the general population from TBBPA exposure is, therefore, considered to be insignificant.

they have also defined rules for people manufacturing TBBPA-containing products as clearly stated hereafter:

* Workers in the manufacture of TBBPA and products containing the compound should be protected from exposure by means of engineering controls, monitoring of occupational exposure, and appropriate industrial hygiene measures.
* Environmental exposure should be minimized through the appropriate treatment of effluents and emissions in industries using the compound or products.
* Disposal of industrial wastes and consumer products should be controlled to minimize environmental contamination with this material and its breakdown products.
* If TBBPA-treated material is incinerated, it has to be done in properly constituted incinerators running at consistently optimal conditions.

Greenpeace has decided to launch an really active campaign against Apple, in order to get Cupertino-based company to react to such problem: http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/procreate-video.