Brominated flame retardants: cause for concern?
Open Access
- 1 January 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 112 (1), 9-17
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6559
Abstract
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) have routinely been added to consumer products for several decades in a successful effort to reduce fire-related injury and property damage. Recently, concern for this emerging class of chemicals has risen because of ...Keywords
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