Comment on elevated house dust and serum concentrations of PBDEs in California: unintended consequences of furniture flammability standards?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2659-2660

  Banasik, Marek ^a   Biesemeier, John ^b   Ariano, John M ^b   Harbison, Raymond D ^c   Hover, Carl G ^d   Price, Debra J ^e   Hardy, Marcia ^f   Stedeford, Todd ^f  

^a NATIONAL MEDICINES INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b LANXESS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d U S ARMY   (United States)

^e Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County   (United States)

^f Albemarle Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

BLOOD; FLAMMABILITY; FURNITURE; HOUSE DUST; HYPERTHYROIDISM; NOTE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; DUST; FIRES; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; HUMANS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; RATS;

EID: 64349108138     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es803313q     Document Type: Note

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