An overview of brominated flame retardants in the environment.

By C. D. de Wit. Chemosphere, 2002

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Subfields: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Pollution

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2. Chris Vulpe
3. Helen C. Poynton
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5. C. D. de Wit

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Citations in the corpus

• Fire retardant action of mineral fillers (2011, background): “Please cite this article as: Hull R, Witkowski A, Hollingbery L. Fire retardant action of mineral fillers, Polymer Degradation and Stability (2011), doi: 10.”
• Prenatal Exposure to PBDEs and Neurodevelopment (2010, background): “These trends may be attributable to debris containing office equipment known to be treated with PBDEs (de Wit 2002).”
• Levels and trends of brominated flame retardants in the European environment. (2006, background): “Two overviews of the levels and trends of brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in environmental samples, including those in Europe, were published during 2002-03 (de Wit, 2002; Law et al., 2003).”
• Fireproof killer whales (Orcinus orca): flame-retardant chemicals and the conservation imperative in the charismatic icon of British Columbia, Canada (2006, background): “The PBDEs are less well understood, although an accumulating literature and a structural similarity to PCBs provide a basis for at least an elementary characterization of source, transport, and fate for these currently used flame retardants (Boon et al. 2002; de Wit 2002; Zhu and Hites 2004).”
• Ecotoxicogenomics: Emerging Technologies for Emerging Contaminants 1 (2009, background): “Because of their persistence in the environment, they are ubiquitous, global pollutants which readily bioaccumulate in living organisms (de Wit, 2002; Ueno et al., 2004; Ramu et al., 2007).”
• An overview of commercially used brominated flame retardants, their applications, their use patterns in different countries/regions and possible modes of release. (2003, background): “Penta-BDE formulation contains the three predominant congeners (BDE-47, -99, -100) the same found in biological matrices including human tissue (de Wit, 2002).”
• Recent developments in the fire retardancy of polymeric materials (2013, background): “hexabromodiphenylethers, 43-44% heptabromodiphenyl ethers, and 31-35% octabromodiphenyl ethers; and penta-BDE, ~50-62% pentabromodiphenyl ethers and 24-38% tetrabromodiphenyl ethers [24, 25].”