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ACSH PRESENTS <strong>Brominated</strong> <strong>Flame</strong> <strong>Retardants</strong>: A Burning Issue By William P. Kucewicz Art Director: Jennifer Lee AUGUST 2006 AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH 1995 Broadway, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10023-5860 Phone: (212) 362-7044 • Fax: (212) 362-4919 URLs: http://acsh.org • http://HealthFactsAndFears.com E-mail: acsh@acsh.org
TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary .......................................................... 01 Introduction ...................................................................... 01 How <strong>Flame</strong> <strong>Retardants</strong> Work .......................................... 01 Residential Fires Cost Lives ............................................. 03 <strong>Flame</strong> <strong>Retardants</strong> Save Lives .......................................... 04 Efforts to Ban PBDEs ....................................................... 05 Warnings from Environmental Groups ......................... 08 Human Exposure to PBDEs ............................................ 09 Studies Find No Health Risk ............................................. 11 DecaBDE in the Environment ........................................ 13 Conclusions ...................................................................... 13 References ......................................................................... 14 ACSH WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE, WHO REVIEWED THIS PAPER. Gordon W. Gribble, Ph.D. The Dartmouth Professor of Chemistry Dartmouth College Theodore R. Holford, Ph.D. Head, Division of Biostatistics Yale University School of Medicine William O. Robertson, M.D. Medical Director Washington Poison Center Roy F. Spalding, Ph.D. Professor - Agronomy & Horticulture University of Nebraska Mark J. Utell, M.D. Professor of Medicine and Environmental Medicine University of Rochester Medical Center James J. Worman, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry Rochester Institute of Technology ACSH accepts unrestricted grants on the condition that it is solely responsible for the conduct of its research and the dissemination of its work to the public. The organization does not perform proprietary research, nor does it accept support from individual corporations for specific research projects. All contributions to ACSH—a publicly funded organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code—are tax deductible. Copyright © 2006 by <strong>American</strong> <strong>Council</strong> on Science and Health, Inc. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeograph or any other means, without permission.
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