Response to 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 2661-2662

  Zota, Ami R ^a,b   Rudel, Ruthann A ^b   Morello Frosch, Rachel A ^c   Brody, Julia Green ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Silent Spring Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; PESTICIDE; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER;

BLOOD; BREAST MILK; FLAMMABILITY; FURNITURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOUSE DUST; INGESTION; NOTE; SKIN ABSORPTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 64349111528     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es9001482     Document Type: Note

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