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 called for a review of previous European Commission conclusions regarding the protection of workers and consumers handling products containing the textile flame retardant hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD). Its experts have declared too narrow previous "margin-of-safety" precautions used when drawing conclusions about human safety from exposure tests on rats. "The use of reduced reference MOS value [has] insufficient justification", it said ...
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