Mar. 12 at 2:30 PM
LAist and USC tested
$PRM Perimeter Solutions’ MVP-Fx, a legacy aerial fire retardant used around the Palisades, Eaton and Franklin fires, and found 11 metals, including arsenic, cadmium, chromium and lead. USC then tested an unused, unmixed sample of the same product and found the same pattern again. That matters because it points back to the competing formulation itself, not just ash, soil or post-fire contamination. The article is raising questions about their chemistry, their residue profile and their disclosure, not about this story (https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/how-much-toxic-heavy-metal-is-in-that-bright-red-fire-retardant-we-had-it-tested-to-find-out)
$CITR That is the contrast. While a legacy retardant is now getting harder questions around metals, environmental residue and what gets left behind after deployment, this setup is being framed around cleaner chemistry and stronger safety positioning. If buyers, agencies and insurers start focusing more on what is actually in the product, the cleaner alternative stands out more
