EU SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE SAYS POLYMER FIRE RETARDANT SAFETY SHOULD BE REVIEWED
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's (EU) scientific committee on health and environmental risks has claimed there could be flaws in existing EU risk assessments regarding the protection of workers and consumers handling products containing the polymer and textile flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD). Its experts have raised concerns about possible problems within mathematical models used to draw safety conclusions about human safety from exposure tests on rats. Specifically, the committee has highlighted a "reduced reference margin of ...
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