Patent ID: 7813606

Claim:
An optical fiber cable having a sheath of a flame retardant composition at the outer side of an optical fiber, wherein the flame retardant composition (P) comprising a thermoplastic resin (A), a metal hydrate (B) of 60 to 150 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin (A), and a red phosphorus (C) of 10 parts by mass or less based on 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin (A), wherein the thermoplastic resin being composed of an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer (a) of 90 to 50 mass %, a polypropylene resin (b) of 5 to 40 mass %, a polyolefin modified by an unsaturated carboxylic acid or its derivative (c-1) and/or ethylene-(meth)acrylic acid copolymer (c-2) of 0 to 20 mass %, a styrene elastomer (d) of 0 to 30 mass %, and an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (e-1) and/or ethylene-(meth)acrylate copolymer (e-2) of 0 to 40 mass %.