Novel and high volume use flame retardants in US couches reflective of the 2005 PentaBDE phase out

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 13432-13439

  Stapleton, Heather M ^a   Sharma, Smriti ^a   Getzinger, Gordon ^a   Ferguson, P Lee ^a   Gabriel, Michelle ^c   Webster, Thomas F ^b   Blum, Arlene ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; DATA GAP; DE FACTO STANDARD; FLAMMABILITY STANDARDS; HEALTH-STUDY; HUMAN CARCINOGEN; HUMAN EXPOSURES; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; POLYURETHANE FOAM; TRIPHENYL PHOSPHATE;

ISOMERS; MIXTURES; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; SALES;

FLAME RETARDANTS;

CARCINOGEN; FLAME RETARDANT; PHOSPHORIC ACID O,O,O TRIS(1,3 DICHLOROPROP 2 YL) ESTER; POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHER; POLYURETHAN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CARCINOGEN; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FOAM; HEALTH RISK; PBDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FIRE PROTECTION; FLAMMABILITY; FURNITURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOME; HUMAN; MATERIALS; SAMPLING; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLAME RETARDANTS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HALOGENATED DIPHENYL ETHERS; INTERIOR DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS; POLYURETHANES;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871333819     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es303471d     Document Type: Article

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