News Article
Jan 31, 2010
Study Links Reduced Fertility to Flame Retardant Exposure
The first study linking flame retardant exposure to
impaired fertility
was released earlier this month by UC Berkeley researchers.
The
chemical causing the reduced fertility, pentaBDE,
was primarily used
in furniture and baby product foam to meet the California
furniture
flammability standard TB117.
Although this flame retardant has been
banned by the Stockholm convention and is not currently
made, most of
the pentaBDE that was ever produced is still in furniture,
baby
products, and carpet cushion in homes in California
and other states.
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UC Berkeley Fertility Study
