ApocaDocs: Dust, not food, main source of lesser known flame retardants

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Posted Tue Sep 8 2009: from Environmental Health News:


	Dust, not food, main source of lesser known flame retardants http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1252452854 ...These results suggest that house dust is a significant contributor to human exposure to HBCDs. The use of HBCD-treated products, rather than industrial pollution, may thus contribute more importantly to human exposure. In addition, infants and toddlers may be at greatest risk of exposure because they crawl on floors and may increase their exposure due to hand-to-mouth behavior. While exposure to other persistent organic pollutants appear to occur primarily through food, this result is consistent with studies of other flame retardants, such as PBDEs, which suggest that the main exposure sources are located in homes and other indoor environments.

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