Consumers like pillow top mattresses as they provide better support than the more traditional inner spring mattress. However, many manufacturers use glues to join the mattress to the pillow top using substances that can be carcinogenic. Jamison, and other manufacturers like Restonic and Justice, now uses safer methods of construction.
During the 1980s and 1990s the adhesive used by mattress manufacturers was based on 1,1,1-trichloroethane (TCA), a chlorinated solvent. TCA adhesive was ideal as it evaporated rapidly leaving an instant bond
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Lavea is unable to attend to his personal hygiene adequately, and the board said at least two prisoners had been helping with his toileting arrangements.
The prison have done their very best to assist him, but the facilities are restricted and the consequences for him and others around him are very unsatisfactory to say the least, it said.
In the end the board said it was satisfied that Lavea, 38, would not be a risk to the community while he was under home detention, because of close electronic monitoring and his extraordinary health difficulties.
He had been convicted of fraud. On November 15 he dropped an appeal against his convictions.
The Court of Appeal was told that Lavea normally lived on a mattress in an Auckland garage, where his wife and two sons cared for him.
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