The same is true for methylmercury, pesticides, and flame retardants.
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"Also formaldehyde, stain, and flame retardants — the list goes on."
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Chlorinated phosphate fire retardants also made the Environmental Working Group's list.
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Flame retardants in mattresses and sofas can leach into breast milk.
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Flame retardants in indoor dust could also cause allergies and asthma.
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Reviews of flame retardants like asbestos were also halted at the EPA.
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But there have been fewer efforts to regulate pesticides and flame retardants.
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This helps remove chemical dusts from electronics and other materials, especially flame retardants.
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For example, buy from furniture companies that do not use toxic flame retardants.
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But two new menaces may be taking their place: pesticides and flame retardants.
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Helicopters were seen releasing numerous and precise water drops and fire retardants on the flames.
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Commissioner Bob Adler said there's a "whole host of dangers" these organohalogen flame retardants carry.
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Fighting forest fires requires using thousands of tons of fires retardants that pollute water streams.
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Chemicals from flame retardants were detected in livestock in Michigan, contaminating food across the state.
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The article also misstated the acronym for polybrominated diphenyl ethers, widely used in fire retardants.
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Dumps form, contaminating the earth with toxic substances such as lead, mercury, arsenic, and flame retardants.
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Aerial bombers were covering the buildings still standing in Fort McMurray with water and flame retardants.
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An aircraft was diverted to drop fire retardants on bushfires threatening homes in Sydney's northern suburbs.
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To date, 14 states have adopted policies that limit or ban flame retardants from certain products.
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Even if flame retardants do contribute to the disease, they may not be the sole cause.
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It also has virtually no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and is made with only natural flame retardants.
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Chemicals, from engine leakages and flame retardants, are thought to possibly increase risk by acting as hormone disruptions.
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Flame retardants help products meet flammability standards that are built into building codes, insurance requirements and fire regulations.
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A new study involving some furry volunteers suggests that these chemicals include fire retardants commonly found in homes.
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Around the early 2000s, OPEs begun replacing an older class of fire retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
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PFAS is used in non-stick cookware and fire retardants and its use has been linked to cancer.
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Eventually, researchers homed in on another possibility: a class of flame retardants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs).
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The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how flame retardants might impact women's fertility.
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For more strategies to minimize exposure to flame retardants and other potentially problematic chemicals—such as phthalates (substances added to plastics for flexibility) which could have a synergistic effect with flame retardants, Dodson says—it helps to use the free smartphone app Detox Me, developed by the silent Spring Institute.
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PFAS, an increasingly controversial class of chemicals that are used as fire retardants, are often present in firefighter uniforms.
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Polybrominated diphenyl ethers These chemicals are used as flame retardants, chemicals that can slow the speed of a flame.
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There are chemical retardants that slow concrete's hydration, accelerators that speed it up, and plasticizers that increase its workability.
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Why it matters: Dyes, retardants and other fabric treatments can wash away, wear off or irritate some people's skin.
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PCBs were mostly used in electrical equipment, transformers, and hydraulics, but also in applications like plasticizers and fire retardants.
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If you're looking for a changing pad made with organic cotton and without chemicals like flame retardants, the Pros:Cons:
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Ash can contain toxic metals, and post-fire flooding can bring toxic fire retardants used in firefighting into estuaries.
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The firm also advised individual companies, makers of flame retardants, compounds that are called "chemicals of concern," and pesticides.
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In addition, parents should avoid mattresses and children&aposs toys that contain polyurethane foam (which often carries flame retardants).
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Another limitation of the study is that researchers didn't consider male partners' exposure to flame retardants, the authors note.
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They found that dust often contains chemicals such as perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), replacement flame retardants, phthalates, and fragrances.
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The only way to know whether older furniture has flame retardants is to test it in a lab, Stapleton said.
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Lanxess bought the U.S. maker of additives for lubricants and flame retardants for 2.4 billion euros including debt last year.
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The issue of PFAS nearly military basis is of special interest since the chemical is often found in fire retardants.
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In fact, US mothers have far higher concentrations of flame retardants in breast milk, presumably because regulations are less stringent.
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Other clients have included Albemarle, which makes flame retardants; Dow AgroSciences, which makes the pesticide chlorpyrifos; Waste Management; and Monsanto.
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Flame retardants can be found in household furniture and electronics, while pesticides can be consumed when they linger on produce.
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The gel can be applied directly to vegetation, and unlike other flame retardants, it won't blow away in the wind.
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However Federal law requires that products pass an open flame test which can only be met using these flame retardants.
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And on top of that, they'll also require textile suppliers to remove perfluorinated chemicals and flame retardants from fabric by 2022.
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Since then, however, flame retardants have been associated with serious health concerns such as cancer, neurotoxicity and reproductive and developmental issues.
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All the layers are CertiPUR-US approved to be without heavy metals, phthalates, formaldehyde, mercury, PBDE flame retardants, and ozone depleters.
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Prenatal exposure to brominated flame retardants, used in electronics and furniture, is linked to I.Q. reduction and shortening of attention span.
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We know that flame retardants accumulate in our own bodies; scientists find PBDEs in nearly every person they test, including newborns.
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The study also doesn't prove flame retardants cause thyroid damage, only that there appears to be an association between these two things.
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Regular hand-washing -- which has a multitude of benefits -- will also reduce exposure to flame retardants found on the surfaces of furniture.
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It is the world's sixth-largest producer of potash and supplies about a third of the world's bromine, used in fire retardants.
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Those chemicals include heavy metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic, toxic flame retardants and endocrine disruptors such as parabens, BPA and formaldehyde.
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The EU barred the use of several heavy metals and flame retardants in electronic goods in 2006 and recently proposed expanding the scheme.
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It is making further inroads into specialty materials with the purchase of Chemtura , a U.S. maker of additives for lubricants and flame retardants.
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Adler said the commission has been told "there are a host of other flame retardants" that work but don't have issues of toxicity.
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They also use fire retardants delivered from the air from large cargo planes and water drops that tap into lake and reservoir supplies.
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Flame retardants may interfere with brain development in fetuses and children; other compounds that cling to plastics can cause cancer or birth defects.
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In addition to protecting homes with flame retardants, these AIG employees respond to fires and map homes in real time as wildfires approach.
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"Lead, mercury, PCBs, flame retardants and pesticides cause prenatal brain damage to tens of thousands of children in this country every year," he noted.
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The mattress features a bottom, middle, and top later of naturally flame-resistant wool, so no chemical flame retardants are used in the construction.
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Flame retardants added to a wide range of products aren't chemically bound, which means they're continuously released into the air and dust, Carignan said.
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They also reported that the dust level of flame retardants was "significantly higher" on the campus that followed a more severe flammability standard for furniture.
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Certain chemicals—phthalates, bisphenol A, flame retardants—added to plastics to provide beneficial qualities may in turn disrupt hormones or other important functions following exposure.
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Flight attendants are often exposed to possible or probable carcinogens like pesticides, fire retardants, jet fuel and other chemicals more frequently than the general population.
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Sales of ICL Israel Chemicals Ltd's industrial products, including flame retardants, rose 4 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, while potash sales declined.
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It also branched out with the purchases of Chemours' hygiene product ingredients business and of Chemtura, a U.S. maker of additives for lubricants and flame retardants.
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Researchers in her lab in California intend to use pigeons to monitor other heavy metals, as well as pesticides and fire retardants, in urban areas worldwide.
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What took us so long to reduce the amount of benzene in gasoline or toxic flame retardants in our waters, food, furniture, bedding, fabrics and breastmilk?
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California and 12 other states have restricted certain types of flame retardants, but studies have shown that the substitutes marketed by the industry pose similar hazards.
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Earlier this year, the company said it would aim to produce up to 15 percent of global antimony output, used primarily to make fire retardants and batteries.
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Their research linked this trend directly to the use of human chemical pollutants, especially chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) common in products such as aerosol sprays, pesticides, and flame retardants.
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Microplastics contain chemicals that could potentially harm organs if released in high concentrations, such as flame retardants, or they might cause injuries simply by gumming things up.
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States like Maine, California, and Washington have proactively and successfully passed laws that limit the use of certain flame retardants and chemicals like BPA in children's products.
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The agency has been holding a number of community engagement events across the country to listen to concerns over the chemical--which is found in fire retardants.
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In 22008, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted in favor of a rule to ban certain flame retardants from upholstered furniture, mattresses, children's products and electronic casings.
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The mains had been knocked out in the torpedo strikes, meaning there was no water pressure in the hoses; Shea did what he could with chemical retardants.
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Analysts said commodity chemicals maker SABIC's push to diversify fits Clariant's business, which includes higher-margin catalysts, de-icers for aeroplanes, wildfire retardants and ingredients for shampoo.
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Research on the toxicity of flame retardants such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) led to their phase out of consumer products and appliances.
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They all serve specific roles: Lead is extremely effective as a solder, for example, and flame retardants keep our computers from bursting into flames while we type.
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The service, which is offered as part of a client's regular insurance payment, includes proactive fire risk consultations and the installation of sprinklers and application fire retardants.
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The plant is one of ICL's core assets, producing potash that goes into fertilizers, bromine for flame retardants and other products sold for billions of dollars worldwide.
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"Flame retardants migrate out of furniture and other products into the air and dust in our homes, schools and offices," Allen noted in an email to Reuters Health.
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Ross' colleague Heather Patisaul, a professor and neurotoxicologist at NCSU, studies how chemicals like flame retardants or the infamous ingredient in plastics called BPA mess with developing brains.
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These chemicals have been used to make a wide variety of consumer products over the years, including baby bottles, metal food cans, flame retardants, detergents, pesticides and cosmetics.
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Studies have shown that compounds like DDT, BPA, PBDEs (chemicals used in flame retardants), heavy metal cadmium, lead, and mercury can all find their way into breast milk.
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The potential health effects: Flame retardants have been associated with a litany of negative health effects, including thyroid cancer, ADHD, slower brain development, and decreases in children's IQs.
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New research from New York University shows that pesticides and flame retardants may pose a growing threat to a child&aposs IQ — perhaps more than lead or mercury.
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According to new research from New York University, flame retardants resulted in a loss of 162 million IQ points among children in the US between 203 and 2016.
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Regulations on flame retardants and pesticides are more lax than heavy metalsFor decades, scientists have understood that exposure to lead and mercury can result in childhood brain damage.
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At the University of California, San Francisco, one such center has been studying how industrial chemicals such as flame retardants in furniture could affect placenta and fetal development.
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It has branched out with the purchase of Chemours' hygiene product ingredients business and an agreement to buy Chemtura, a U.S. maker of additives for lubricants and flame retardants.
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Used in refrigeration, building insulation, and as flame retardants, HFCs became prevalent in the 1990s, after the Montreal Protocol banned their more infamous cousins, the ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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Planes and helicopters buzzed overhead, dropping bright plumes of chemical retardants; if the "Flight of the Valkyries" had been playing, it could have been a scene from Apocalypse Now.
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A recent study of about 300 women found detectable levels of pesticides, flame retardants, phthalates, PCBs and other chemicals in 99 percent to 100 percent of the women tested.
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An international meeting in late April in Geneva on "detoxifying the future" will decide whether to add two new chemicals, used as flame retardants and in plastics, to the list.
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If not disposed of properly, e-waste can release numerous toxics — heavy metals including lead, mercury, and cadmium; and chemicals, among them brominated flame retardants and dioxins — into the environment.
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An official with the American Chemistry Council, which represents companies that make flame retardants, plastics and phthalates, said the new law already addresses the concerns raised by the Tendr coalition.
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In California, levels of various toxic flame retardants in the blood of pregnant woman and in breast milk fell since the state ban on those chemicals took effect in 2006.
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Lab tests showed high urinary levels of metabolites, or byproducts, of three flame retardants: diphenyl phosphate (DPHP), bis(1,3-dichloro-2-propyl) phosphate (BDCIPP) and isopropylphenyl phenyl phosphate (ip-PPP).
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Dr. Trasande said he tells families that the strongest evidence we have of chemicals affecting the developing brain is about pesticides and flame retardants, which can be hard to avoid.
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And reduce your exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals such as phthalates (in plastics and cosmetics), flame retardants (in furniture), and pesticides (on lawns and in fruits and vegetables), Swan says.
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Apple, meanwhile, has eliminated its use of lead, reduced its use of brominated flame retardants and eliminated PVC from its power cords — although it won't say what it uses instead.
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According to a release from the university, the POPs found included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are known to be used as electrical insulators and flame retardants.
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That, the attorneys general say, could create roadblocks for state reviews already underway on products such as flame retardants in furniture cushions and methylene chloride, a chemical used in paint strippers.
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Their blood was tested for environmental pollutants including those found in pesticides and flame retardants as well as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), banned chemicals that still contaminate some rivers and other sites.
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Everyday chemicals carry toxic burden These everyday chemicals, including organophosphates, flame retardants and phthalates, can be found in food, plastics, furniture, food wrap, cookware, cans, carpets, shower curtains, electronics and even shampoo.
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Commonly used chemicals, including pesticides, lead and fire retardants, can increase or decrease production of certain hormones within our bodies and so are said to disrupt our endocrine, or hormone-making, system.
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"It is critical that manufacturers have access to safe and effective flame retardants in the future and the flexibility to utilize the fire safety tools that best meet their needs," said Goodman.
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Of most concern are the lingering effects of chemicals and pesticides, including the now banned DDT, as well as PCBs and PBDE, widely used in flame retardants and found through the world.
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E.P.A. and government-funded academic researchers were raising serious health questions about the safety of a range of chemicals, including flame retardants in furniture and plastics in water bottles and children's toys.
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The southern residents feed primarily on Chinook salmon; overfishing and habitat destruction have made those fish not just scarce but contaminated with everything from flame retardants and lead to Prozac and cocaine.
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It contains bromine, the element found in brominated flame retardants, and studies suggest it can build up in the body and can potentially lead to memory loss and skin and nerve problems.
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These include pesticides sprayed in inner-city buildings and on crops, flame retardants used in furniture, combustion-related air pollutants from fossil-fuel-burning power plants and vehicles, lead, mercury and plasticizers.
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More than a dozen states have adopted legislation that restricts the use of flame retardants in products like furniture, carpeting, and children&aposs toys, but none of the chemicals are banned federally.
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The chemicals - known as PFRs, or organophosphate flame retardants - can be used to make clothing or upholstery fire-resistant and may also be found in nail polish, yoga mats and car seats.
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Other chemical contaminants found in the cabin may include engine leakages, pesticides and flame retardants, which contain compounds that may act as hormone disruptors and increase the risk of some cancers, Mordukhovich said.
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Because flame retardants are added to textiles, curtains, electronics, upholstered furniture, building insulation, and other materials, they can migrate out of these items and permeate the air and dust in a given space.
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Compared to women with the lowest blood concentrations of flame retardants, women with the highest levels in their blood were 48 to 78 percent more likely to have thyroid problems, the study found.
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They looked for the presence of potentially toxic chemicals and divided them into five classes of chemicals, two of which were found to be more common than the rest: phthalates and flame retardants.
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For example, phthalates were detected in the highest concentrations in the study, but the chemicals found in flame retardants had the "highest estimated intake," meaning they are more likely to enter the body.
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Where you may find it: Cyclic aliphatic bromide cluster is a group of chemicals found in flame retardants, plastic additives and certain polystyrene foams used in the construction industry for thermal insulation boards.
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Few doctors, for example, think to ask patients if they use a water filter at home, if they store food in plastic containers or glass, or if their children's bedding contains flame retardants.
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Amy Bann, who leads environmental strategy for sustainable materials in the commercial airplanes division of Boeing, said that many interior components contain flame retardants critical for passenger safety and are required by regulators.
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Aircraft dropping chemicals, retardants and water on fires often need to fly low enough that they could risk colliding with unauthorized drones—and as the FAA notes, even small birds can already damage aircraft.
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These include antimony (durable when exposed to heat, but similar to arsenic in terms of its toxicology), bromine (used as flame retardants), and limited amounts of heavy metals such as cadmium, mercury, and lead.
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Scientists think the low birth and survival rate could be due, in part, to the chemicals from pesticides, plastics and flame retardants that accumulate in these animals and pass through milk to their offspring.
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Scientists have identified more than 200 industrial chemicals — from pesticides, flame retardants, jet fuel — as well as neurotoxins like lead in the blood or breast milk of Americans, indeed, in people all over our planet.
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Many of the flame retardants detected may be health hazards; some of these chemicals are known carcinogens, while others are recognized as hormone disruptors (linked with thyroid dysfunction and decreased fertility, in particular) or neurotoxins.
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Concentrations of certain flame retardants (including the carcinogenic TCEP) were higher in students' rooms than in common areas, perhaps because dorm rooms are often more heavily furnished and—no shade, college students—cleaned less regularly.
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One of the most infamous, the pesticide DDT, was developed during World War II. DDT was banned in the 1970s, but other POPs, including flame retardants and non-stick coatings, are still widely used today.
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Recent data have increasingly shown that certain pesticides, flame retardants, air pollutants, lead, and mercury can contribute to learning behavioral, or intellectual impairment, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders such as ADHD or autism spectrum disorder.
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Several years later, a group in Illinois discovered that pet cats had higher PBDE levels than feral ones and that hyperthyroid cats tended to live in homes that were particularly saturated with the flame retardants.
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Tiny crustaceans, such as yellowish Hirondellea gigas living in darkness about 10,000 meters (33,000 ft) down in the Pacific Ocean, are polluted by PCBs, used in electric transformers or paints, and PBDE chemicals used as flame retardants.
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A single spark can ignite a wind-driven wildfire that moves with such speed firefighters can't safely confront it, even from the air, as flame retardants dropped from planes and helicopters blow off course in the gusts.
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Winds also complicate firefighting efforts: If they're too strong, planes and helicopters can't accurately drop flame retardants, and if they're too light, smoke accumulates and visibility plummets, making it unsafe to fly too close to the conflagration.
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It would encourage firms to "standardize, make green and scale up" the complete recycling of products, including materials used in construction such as cement, bricks, and fire retardants, as well as mine slag and tailings, and porcelain.
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But environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers criticized the plan, saying it in effect delayed desperately needed regulation on a clear public health threat from chemicals that are commonly used in cookware, pizza boxes, stain repellents and fire retardants.
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A petition by a coalition of consumer groups spurred the commission to develop a rule restricting the use of a broad class of flame retardants in children's products, as well as mattresses, furniture and casings for electronics.
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At a September meeting, Ms. Buerkle voted with Mr. Mohorovic, her former Republican colleague, against limiting flame retardants, despite testimony from Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program.
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The study, published Tuesday in the journal Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology, looked at the four chemicals known to impact the brain of a developing child most: lead, mercury, pesticides, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers (otherwise known as flame retardants).
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But it turns out that the use of flame retardants may not even be necessary, given the effectiveness of non-toxic alternatives such as sprinkler systems, smoke detectors, bans on smoking and use of candles, and smolder-resistant furniture.
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The bill would update the Toxic Substances Control Act amid complaints that its 40-year-old provisions hobble the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from effectively regulating chemicals, including those ranging from asbestos and flame retardants to everyday household products.
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A 2011 study, for example, found that they were exposed to an average of about 40 environmental chemicals, including some that are linked to health problems, like phthalates (which are found in plastics) and compounds used as flame retardants.
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It's ubiquitous, but it's very flammable, so it's covered in potentially carcinogenic flame retardants that can disrupt the endocrine system, said Rolf Halden, a health engineering professor and director of Arizona State University's Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering.
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From cellphones to computers to televisions, electronics are manufactured with a long list of substances that are known to be toxic, including metals such as lead and hexavalent chromium, and other contaminants such as phthalates and brominated flame retardants.
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Brominated phthalate fire retardants found in polyurethane foam for furniture and baby products; 1-Bromopropane found in aerosol cleaners; DEHA found in plastic wrap and PVC plastic; and P-dichlorobenzene in mothballs and deodorant – all known carcinogens – also made the list.
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A jar of cricket frogs installed by his skeleton in Objects of Wonder were collected in 1858 Illinois, before the introduction of organochlorine pesticides and flame retardants, so researchers can compare the state of the frog population to this past baseline.
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Its decision to start sales of the metal, used primarily to make fire retardants and batteries, coincides with rising prices of antimony, which is trading in Europe at its highest level since June, around $211,210 a ton, due to tight Chinese supply.
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The full-year outlook for adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) does not yet include the planned takeover of Chemtura, a U.S. maker of additives for lubricants and flame retardants, which it plans to wrap up by mid-2017.
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They also found elevated levels of perfluoroalkyls, or PFAS, in their blood, which are chemicals used in fire retardants that some lawmakers have recently pushed to ban because they've been associated with an increased risk of cancer and damage to the immune system.
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"They also add to the body of evidence indicating a need to reduce the use of these flame retardants and identify safer alternatives," Carignan, now at the Center for Research on Ingredient Safety at Michigan State University in East Lansing, said by email.
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The nominee, Michael L. Dourson, a longtime researcher whose studies often bolstered safety claims by manufacturers of pesticides, flame retardants and other products under federal scrutiny as possible public health hazards, had been working as an adviser to the agency while awaiting confirmation.
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In the first study of its kind, researchers collected 95 dust samples from common areas and student rooms in dormitories on two New England college campuses that adhered to two different furniture flammability standards and found traces of 47 different flame retardants in the dust.
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These chemicals include bisphenol A (BPA), which lines food cans made of tin; phthalates, which are used when manufacturing cosmetics and plastic food containers; polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) found in the flame retardants added to furniture and packaging; and pesticides such as chlorpyrifos and organophosphates.
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Sales of bromine, a chemical used to make fire extinguishers, were driven by demand in flame retardants for electronics, clear completion fluids, and polymer resins, despite weakness in automotive and construction, sectors that have been hit by trade tensions and fears of slowing global growth.
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The International Institute for Sustainable Development's Experimental Lakes Area, or ELA, are testing grounds that allow researchers to isolate a pocket of water within a lake and add pollutants like hormones and flame retardants—and now potentially microplastics—and watch how the ecosystem responds.
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The Kunming Intermediate People's Court said in the auction section of e-commerce platform Taobao that 18,660,763 kg, or around 22018,270 tonnes of antimony, a shiny metal used in fire retardants, would be open for bids over a 2140-hour period from 2000 a.m.
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A 24.05-hour auction of about 2148.75,221.53 tonnes of antimony, the entire stock of the metal used in fire retardants that Fanya held when it folded, ended at 2221.5 Beijing time (21 GMT) on Sunday, with a bid of 27.0928 million yuan securing the lot.
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Read more:Breast milk could carry harmful chemicals like flame retardants and BPA, but breastfeeding is still the healthiest food source for babiesAn image of a woman&aposs &aposmilk ducts&apos has gone viral, but it&aposs actually an inaccurate depictionBreastfeeding doesn&apost guarantee weight loss.
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Because of additives such as dyes, fillers, and flame retardants, even No. 1, PET, the world's most widely recycled plastic, is only melted and remade into new products at a rate of between 20 and 30 percent, according to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
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The size and reach of the Saudis — SABIC has $40 billion annual sales, six times Clariant's revenue — could help the Swiss company lower costs for materials for its products, which include fire retardants which are dropped to tackle forest blazes and catalysts to speed up chemical reactions.
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Read more: Breast milk could carry harmful chemicals like flame retardants and BPA, but breastfeeding is still the healthiest food source for babiesAlthough anyone with an infection could potentially go into sepsis, people with compromised or weaker immune systems are more likely to develop the condition.
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It wasn't until Appel's brother in law—Jesse Acosta, formerly a fire prevention forester for the state of Hawaii, now at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo—said hey, what about loading these gels with fire retardants and applying them to the body that is Mother Nature?
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The emails detail an unusually close relationship with the American Chemistry Council and with individual companies whose products are scheduled for priority review by the E.P.A., among them trichloroethylene, known as TCE, a volatile organic compound widely used in industrial and commercial processes, and flame retardants.
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And globally, most electronic waste sent overseas is moved illegally to poor areas where people look to the waste as a source of income: They burn cables to get to the copper inside, for example, releasing extremely toxic substances such as cadmium, chromium, and brominated flame retardants.
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Exposure to these chemicals - found in plastic bottles, metal food cans, detergents, flame retardants and cosmetics - has been tied to a wide array of diseases, including autism, diabetes and obesity, said senior author Dr. Leonardo Trasande of the New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
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"What our staff has told us -- and what a number of academic experts and a number of health experts said -- is that the concentration of these flame retardants in things like furniture and children's products are not great enough to do very much to protect us from fire or smoldering hazards," said Adler.
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During their biennial reviews, the group routinely tests samples for a suite of contaminants: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs); polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are flame retardants; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are chemicals resulting from the combustion of fossils fuels; chlorinated pesticides, including dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) compounds; and six metals: lead, copper, zinc, mercury, arsenic and cadmium.
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The goal is to protect expectant mothers, infants and children from neurotoxic chemicals by stepping up efforts to curb air pollution, remediate old lead pipes, phase out certain pesticides, ban endocrine-disrupting chemicals used in food packaging and plastics and come up with a plan for getting rid of furniture laden with fire retardants.
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Imagine a scene set at an elaborate gala: a production is likely to buy the flowers and set dressing like tablecloths, wallpaper, plates, and other on-screen items, but also off-screen necessities like batteries and tape and flame retardants and zip ties, rope and food and beverages, clothing and shoes, office supplies and electronics.
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"Since this is the first study to examine the effects of organophosphate flame retardants on female reproduction, it is unclear how these findings would apply to the general population of reproductive-aged women," said Ami Zota, an environmental and occupational health researcher at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University.
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"We know a whole lot more about the potential health risks associated with some of these chemicals than others," says Ted Schettler, science director of the Science & Environmental Health Network (who was not involved in this study), asserting that the presence of certain flame retardants in dust can correlate to a higher presence of the chemical in a person's blood level.
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The long-term influence of the environment on our health has been a growing focus of environmental and health researchers in recent decades: scientists have shown that lead causes brain damage; bisphenol A and phthalates disrupt the endocrine system, impairing fertility and reproductive processes; some pesticides and flame retardants cause cancer and interfere with brain development in fetuses and children.
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