Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants: The San Antonio statement

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Birnbaum, Linda S ^a   Bergman, Åke ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROMINATED FLAME RETARDANT; CARCINOGEN; CHLORINATED FLAME RETARDANT; DIOXIN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; FLAME RETARDANT; FURAN DERIVATIVE; HEXABROMOCYCLODODECANE; MUTAGENIC AGENT; POLYBROMINATED BIPHENYL; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYCHLORINATED BIPHENYL; TETRABROMOBISPHENOL A; TROMETAMOL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOACCUMULATION; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; SCIENTIST;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES AS TOPIC; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FLAME RETARDANTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; TEXAS;

EID: 78650262784     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1003088     Document Type: Editorial

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