Novel brominated flame retardants: a review of their analysis, environmental fate and behaviour

A Covaci, S Harrad, MAE Abdallah, N Ali, RJ Law… - Environment …, 2011 - Elsevier
This review summarises current knowledge about production volumes, physico-chemical
properties, analysis, environmental occurrence, fate and behaviour and human exposure to …

[HTML][HTML] A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals

Å Bergman, A Rydén, RJ Law, J de Boer… - Environment …, 2012 - Elsevier
Ever since the interest in organic environmental contaminants first emerged 50years ago,
there has been a need to present discussion of such chemicals and their transformation …

Occurrence of alternative flame retardants in indoor dust from New Zealand: indoor sources and human exposure assessment

N Ali, AC Dirtu, N Van den Eede, E Goosey, S Harrad… - Chemosphere, 2012 - Elsevier
Due to worldwide restrictions on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), the demand for
alternative flame retardants (AFRs), such as organophosphate flame retardants (OPFRs) …

Alternate and new brominated flame retardants detected in US house dust

HM Stapleton, JG Allen, SM Kelly… - … science & technology, 2008 - ACS Publications
Due to the voluntary withdrawals and/or bans on the use of two polybrominated diphenyl
ether (PBDE) commercial mixtures, an increasing number of alternate flame retardant …

Flame retardant associations between children's handwipes and house dust

HM Stapleton, J Misenheimer, K Hoffman, TF Webster - Chemosphere, 2014 - Elsevier
Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE), flame retardants (FRs) have been ubiquitously
detected at high concentrations in indoor environments; however, with their recent phase …

Levels and profiles of organochlorines and flame retardants in car and house dust from Kuwait and Pakistan: implication for human exposure via dust ingestion

N Ali, L Ali, T Mehdi, AC Dirtu, F Al-Shammari… - Environment …, 2013 - Elsevier
There are only few studies documenting indoor pollution in the Middle East and the Indian
subcontinent. In present study, we have evaluated the occurrence of various …

“Novel” brominated flame retardants in Belgian and UK indoor dust: implications for human exposure

N Ali, S Harrad, E Goosey, H Neels, A Covaci - Chemosphere, 2011 - Elsevier
Concentrations of several “novel” brominated flame retardants (NBFRs) are reported in
indoor dust samples from Belgian houses (n= 39) and offices (n= 6) and from day-care …

Associations between polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants, phenolic metabolites, and thyroid hormones during pregnancy

HM Stapleton, S Eagle, R Anthopolos… - Environmental …, 2011 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are chemical additives used as flame
retardants in commercial products. PBDEs are bioaccumulative and persistent and have …

Brominated flame retardants in the indoor environment—Comparative study of indoor contamination from three countries

M Venier, O Audy, Š Vojta, J Bečanová… - Environment …, 2016 - Elsevier
Concentrations of more than 20 brominated flame retardants (FRs), including
polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and emerging FRs, were measured in air, dust and …

Flame retardants and their metabolites in the homes and urine of pregnant women residing in California (the CHAMACOS cohort)

R Castorina, C Butt, HM Stapleton, D Avery, KG Harley… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs), used in consumer products since the 1970s,
persist in the environment. Restrictions on penta-polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) …