Flame Retardants

• No-Burn: Fire Retardant Kills Christmas Rhode Island's Tree: Real ‘Charlie Brown Tree’ - Pawtucket Times (plus info) 23dec2005
• Toxic Breast Milk?  -  NY Times Magazine 9sep05

• Toxic Salmon Just Another Tainted Food - Jeremy Brown / Seattle Post-Intelligencer 13aug04

• Federal Panel Concedes to Alaska on Aquaculture -  Juneau Empire 13aug04

• Brominated Flame Retardants: Dust Full of Toxic Chemicals Found All Over Houses -  Scripps Howard News Service 11may04

• Flame Retardants in Lochnagar Fish - Glasgow Herald (Scotland) 6apr04

• Flame retardant designed to replace pentaBDE - Plastics, Additives and Compounding 1jan04

• Deca: New Research Challenges Assumptions About Popular Flame Retardant -  Environmental Science & Technology 6nov03

• As Flame Retardant Builds Up In Humans, a Ban Is Debated -  Wall Street Journal 8oct03

  • High Body Burdens of 2,2´,4,4´-Tetrabromodiphenyl Ether (BDE-47) in California Women - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul03

  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Maternal and Fetal Blood Samples - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul03

• Phthalates, Alkylphenols, Pesticides, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, and Other Endocrine-Disrupting Compounds in Indoor Air and Dust - Env. Sci. Tech 13sep03

• California Senate OKs Ban on 2 Flame Retardants - San Francisco Chronicle 18jul03

• Human Prenatal and Postnatal Exposure to PBDEs, PCBs, OH-PCBs, and PCPs - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul03

• Dangerous Chemicals - Editorial / SF Chronicle 11jun03

• Growing Threats: Toxic Flame Retardants and Children’s Health (Exec. Sum. & Intro) -  Environment California Research and Policy Center Mar03

• Levels of Common Fire Retardants in Humans are Rising Rapidly  - LA Times 20apr03

• Brominated Flame Retardants in Norway - Norwegian Pollution Control Authority (SFT) 20mar03

• Significant Amounts of Potentially Harmful Chemical Found in Blood of Mothers and Babies Press release / Environmental Health Perspectives 10mar03

• Levels of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Flame Retardants in Animals Representing Different Trophic Levels of the North Sea Food Web - Environ. Sci. Technol. 1oct02

• Exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers and tetrabromobisphenol A among computer technicians - Chemosphere Feb02

• Compounding with ammonium polyphosphate-based flame retardants-  Plastics Additives & Compounding Apr02

• PBDE Flame Retardant in Furniture Causes Concern - AP 30jan02

• Regulations will boost European markets for flame retardants - Additives for Polymers Dec01

• Great Lakes launches stabilizers and flame retardants at K 2001 - Additives for Food Polymers Nov01

• Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) in Lake Michigan Salmonids. Environ. Sci. Technol. 14feb01

• PBDE Polybrominated diphenyl ether: What Fate for Brominated Fire Retardants? - Environmental Science and Technology 1may00 

• PBDE - Flame Retardant Exposure: Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Blood from Swedish Workers  -  Environmental Health Perspectives Aug99