News tagged with fire retardants

Study links reduced fertility to flame retardant exposure

Women with higher blood levels of PBDEs, a type of flame retardant commonly found in household consumer products, took longer to become pregnant compared with women who have lower PBDE levels, according to a new study by ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study finds common fire retardant harmful to aquatic life

A new study by Baylor University environmental health researchers found that zebra fish exposed to several different technical mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) – a common fire retardant – during ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0