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Category Archives: Flame Retardant Chemicals
Is Fire Safety Putting Us At Risk?
Read the full series from The Environment Report. You have flame retardant chemicals in your body. Scientists are finding these chemicals, called PBDEs, in newborn babies, and the breast milk those babies drink. We Americans have the highest levels of … Continue reading
Scientists link flame retardants and reduced human fertility
Read the full story in Environmental Health News. Women exposed to high levels of flame retardants take substantially longer to get pregnant, indicating for the first time that the widespread chemicals may affect human fertility, according to a study published … Continue reading
Dust, not food, main source of lesser known flame retardants
Read the full story from Environmental Health News. Household dust is an important source of exposure to a lesser known – but ubiquitous and potentially toxic – flame retardant, reports a study from Belgium. Exposure to dust contaminated with hexabromocyclododecanes … Continue reading
An Assessment of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Sediments and Bivalves of the U.S. Coastal Zone
Via Docuticker. An Assessment of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in Sediments and Bivalves of the U.S. Coastal Zone Source: Center for Coastal Monitoring and Assessment (NOAA) From press release: NOAA scientists, in a first-of-its-kind report issued today, state that Polybrominated … Continue reading
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Flame Retardant Furniture Gives Californians Twice National Average Of PBDEs
Read the full post at Scientific Blogging. Efforts to make furniture less flammable have given residents of California higher blood levels of potentially toxic flame retardants called PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers) – nearly twice the national average, scientists from Massachusetts … Continue reading
Does a key PBDE break down in the environment?
Read the full story in Environmental Science and Technology. Over the past few years, the issue of whether Deca BDE, the only PBDE flame retardant currently used in North America, breaks down in the environment has become a key issue … Continue reading
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Flame retardant, TBBPA, makes the EU grade
Read the full story in Modern Plastics. The conclusions of a risk assessment of brominated flame retardant tetrabromobisphenol-A (TBBPA) are to be published in the European Union (EU) Official Journal, which should enable a smooth transition of the material through … Continue reading
Outspoken scientist dismissed from panel on chemical safety
Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune. Deborah Rice, an award-winning toxicologist, was removed from a group of experts researching a widely-used flame retardant after industry lobbyists complained that she was biased.
More flame retardants found in house dust
Read the full story in ES&T Online News. New research published in ES&T (DOI: 10.1021/es702272s) identifies for the first time a flame retardant known as HCDBCO (hexachlorocyclopentadienyldibromocyclooctane) in the environment and shows that it can be found at high levels … Continue reading
The Proof Is In The Tree Bark
Read the full story from Science Daily. A study by Indiana University researchers found the chlorinated flame retardant Dechlorane Plus in the bark of trees across the northeastern United States, with by far the highest concentrations measured near the Niagara … Continue reading