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- adjective chemistry Having had multiple
hydrogen atoms replaced bybromine
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The Hidden Hazards In the Nursery study tested 20 products -- including nursing pillows, changing pads, bassinet pads and car seats -- for traces of Tris and other toxic chemical flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds, or PBDEs.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2012
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The Hidden Hazards In the Nursery study tested 20 products -- including nursing pillows, changing pads, bassinet pads and car seats -- for traces of Tris and other toxic chemical flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds, or PBDEs.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2012
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The Hidden Hazards In the Nursery study tested 20 products -- including nursing pillows, changing pads, bassinet pads and car seats -- for traces of Tris and other toxic chemical flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds, or PBDEs.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2012
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The Hidden Hazards In the Nursery study tested 20 products -- including nursing pillows, changing pads, bassinet pads and car seats -- for traces of Tris and other toxic chemical flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds, or PBDEs.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2012
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The Hidden Hazards In the Nursery study tested 20 products -- including nursing pillows, changing pads, bassinet pads and car seats -- for traces of Tris and other toxic chemical flame retardants called polybrominated diphenyl ether compounds, or PBDEs.
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff: Flame Retardants Refuse to Burn Out Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff 2012
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Becky wakes up on her new mattress—with the luxurious foam pad on top—both of which have been manufactured, as have all U.S. bedding materials, with a flame-retardant known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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Becky wakes up on her new mattress—with the luxurious foam pad on top—both of which have been manufactured, as have all U.S. bedding materials, with a flame-retardant known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs.
The Autoimmune Epidemic Donna Jackson Nakazawa 2008
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The flame-retardant chemicals that were used the most until recently are called polybrominated diphenylethers, or PBDEs.
The Most Toxic Home Products Oliver J. Chiang 2010
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The chemicals, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDEs, were introduced around 30 years ago****, for use in households as a flame retardant.
Archive 2007-08-01 GreenFertility 2007
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The chemicals, known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers or PBDEs, were introduced around 30 years ago****, for use in households as a flame retardant.
Did my House make my kitty hyperthyroid? GreenFertility 2007
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