Fiberglass with the best selling ‘Green Tea Mattress’ on Amazon –

One of the top-selling mattress brands on Amazon has been accused of being unhealthy in a recent lawsuit alleging that the fiberglass in the product harmed customers.

Zinus, a furniture company in Tracy, California, is facing a class action lawsuit alleging that the material used in the fire retardant cover of its “Green Tea” mattress, which mixes fiberglass and modacrylic, could injure users. Although the material is covered with an outer liner, the lawsuit claims that the company is responsible for injuries caused by removing this liner – it has a zipper for it – the company does not warn against removing this liner.

Clothing excludes exposure to itchy and irritated skin, nausea, eye injuries, respiratory infections and other lung problems, and even skin-penetrating glass splinters. It also claims that some people exposed to fiberglass have had to dispose of exposed furniture and clothing as the material cannot be removed later.

As of Tuesday morning, the products are still available on Amazon. The lawsuits have been filed in Illinois and California since 2020, according to a CBS report.

The company generates approximately $128 million in annual revenue, accounting for about 25 percent of Casper’s sales, one of America’s best-known sleep brands.

A class action lawsuit has been filed against Zinus, whose “green tea” bedding is among the best-selling products on Amazon.

A website created to recruit plaintiffs for class action said, “The mattress’s defect is due to the presence of a zipper on the outer cover, which indicates to the consumer that there is nothing wrong with it.” extraction for recycling.

“The labels on the mattresses say they contain 62% fiberglass, but they don’t warn people to remove the outer cover to avoid exposing the inner fiberglass layer.”

Specifically, it specifies nine Zinus products: Zinus Green Tea memory foam mattress, memory foam mattress with cooling gel, Theratouch Spa Sensations memory foam mattress, Sleep Master Ultima Comfort mattress, Slumber 1 pocket spring quilted mattress, green tea gel memory foam, iCoil Spring mattress, Ultima Comfort memory foam mattress, Relief Cloud memory foam mattress.

“A lawsuit and related disinformation campaign mislead consumers about the type of bedding material used to comply with fire regulations and protect our customers. The type of chemical-free flame retardant material we use is standard across all price ranges in the mattress industry,” a Zinus spokesperson told DailyMail.com.

‘Customers are not allowed to remove the outer bed cover to protect the inner fire barrier. The label shows the contents of the mattress and warns not to remove the outer cover. Zinus mattresses currently on sale include table-lock zippers and an additional sewn-in label warning not to remove the outer cover.

“The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been in the press recently to confirm this. In addition, many regulatory and authoritative scientific bodies have concluded that exposure to such materials does not pose a risk of chronic health effects. For all these reasons, we look forward to defending the composition and structure of our products in court should the need arise, and we are confident that we will prevail.”

A Los Angeles Times study found fiberglass in at least one Zinus mattress.

Experts say that mattress regulations in the United States are both limited and unregulated.

“There’s no law that says a company has to tell you everything in one bed,” Bobbi Wilding, executive director of Clean and Healthy New York, told the Times.

“So what they tell you is what they want to tell you, and that makes people incredibly vulnerable because you just have to trust what they’re saying.”

Fiber exposure is linked to multiple health problems. Exposure to a person’s skin can cause itching, rashes, allergic reactions, and dermatitis.

Some even report having cuts all over their bodies and shards of glass embedded in their skin.

Small particles can be inhaled, causing lung sores, worsening of conditions such as asthma and bronchitis, coughing and shortness of breath, and other lung-related problems.

Exposure has also been associated with eye, nervous and gastrointestinal tract injuries.

“Due to the severity of their injuries, they have to spend thousands of dollars on health care, medical treatment, procedures and medicines,” the website states.

Worse still, some injuries caused by fiberglass, such as lung scars, are permanent and people suffering from this serious condition have to use special inhalers, which are quite expensive.

“Consumers whose health is compromised by the fiberglass in the Zinus mattress, due to their complex injuries, may be out of work for several weeks or months, which can strain their financial stability.”

The alleged financial damage goes beyond just missed business and maintenance costs. Plaintiffs also argue that since the particles cannot be removed from home textile products such as clothing and furniture, they must also be discarded and repurchased.

“This requires cleaning to be done by a team of licensed professionals and costs between $2,000 and $10,000,” they write.

“Also, most people whose homes are contaminated with fiberglass have to throw away just about everything because some items like furniture and clothing cannot remove fiberglass.”