• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame-retardant chemicals that were added to plastics and foam products to make them difficult to burn. (cdc.gov)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a group of flame retardant additives used in thermoplastics, polyurethane foam, and textiles. (sfei.org)
  • Organophosphate ester flame retardants: are they a regrettable substitution for polybrominated diphenyl ethers? (crossref.org)
  • Spatial and temporal trends of alternative flame retardants and polybrominated diphenyl ethers in ringed seals (Phoca hispida) across the Canadian Arctic. (crossref.org)
  • Octabromodiphenyl ether (octaBDE, octa-BDE, OBDE, octa, octabromodiphenyl oxide, OBDPO) is a brominated flame retardant which belongs to the group of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). (wikipedia.org)
  • In an investigation carried out by the WWF, "the brominated flame retardant chemical (PBDE 153), which is a component of the penta- and octa- brominated diphenyl ether flame retardant products" was found in all blood samples of 14 ministers of health and environment of 13 European Union countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • M. J. La Guardia, R. C. Hale, E. Harvey: Detailed Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether (PBDE) Congener Composition of the Widely Used Penta-, Octa-, and Deca-PBDE Technical Flame-retardant Mixtures, Environ. (wikipedia.org)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardants routinely detected in samples of cord blood and breast milk. (hal.science)
  • Abstract: Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are flame retardant that persist, bioaccumulate and biomagnify in aquatic organisms with accompanied deleterious effect. (edu.ng)
  • Until recently PBDEs were some of the most common flame retardant chemicals used in the US. (cdc.gov)
  • Additionally, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are brominated aromatic hydrocarbons heavily used as flame-retardants in plastics, possess structural variations similar to PCBs ( Talsness, 2008 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • Exposure to flame retardants once widely used in consumer products has dropped over the 15 year period after the phase out of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), according to a new study by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. (medindia.net)
  • Manufacturers used PBDEs as the primary flame retardant chemical in furniture between 1975 and 2004 to comply with fire safety standards, with the highest use of these chemicals occurring in North America. (medindia.net)
  • Though levels of these flame retardants are decreasing over time, investigators found PBDEs in every child blood sample. (medindia.net)
  • Since the phase-out of PBDEs, we have begun to detect other flame-retardant chemicals in children, which are likely being used as replacements. (medindia.net)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are flame retardant chemicals used in all kinds of household consumer products. (environmentreport.org)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are bioaccumulativetoxic compounds that are used as flame retardants. (chromatographyonline.com)
  • His PhD thesis was to research occupational and dietary exposure to certain pollutants, with special emphasis on polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), a type of flame retardant. (cdc.gov)
  • This fact sheet answers the most frequently asked health questions (FAQs) about polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). (cdc.gov)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are man-made chemicals found in plastics used in a variety of consumer products to make them difficult to burn. (cdc.gov)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs) belong to a class of chemicals that are added to certain manufactured products in order to reduce the chances that the products will catch on fire. (cdc.gov)
  • A case study of QSAR integrated risk assessment of 209 polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) demonstrates the treatment and influence of uncertainty in the predicted physicochemical and toxicity parameters in probabilistic risk assessment. (imtlucca.it)
  • Human exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) through food and indoor dust ingestion was assessed for 19 Belgian adults. (uantwerpen.be)
  • A retrospective exposure assessment among the general population for polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) was conducted using dietary surveys. (elsevierpure.com)
  • In vitro neurotoxicity data in human risk assessment of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): overview and perspectives. (hal.science)
  • Samples from used and unused firefighter protective clothing, including gloves, hoods and a coat wristlet, were extracted with methylene chloride and analyzed by EPA method 8270D Specific Ion Method (SIM) for polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs). (cdc.gov)
  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) and Formaldehyde free. (fawnandforest.com)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) are a worldwide contamination problem. (chromatographyonline.com)
  • Levels of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) measured in children significantly decreased over a 15-year period between 1998 and 2013. (medindia.net)
  • Analysis of six species of Bay fish, conducted for EWG by a California state toxics lab, detected polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in every fish sampled. (ewg.org)
  • Nevertheless, even following the development of modern toxicology this story repeats itself 45 years later with polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) another compound of concern for public health. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To answer this question, we compared the animal-study histories of two groups of well known organohalogen contaminants: PCBs and PBDEs (polybrominated diphenyl ethers). (biomedcentral.com)
  • These compounds include polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), pesticides, polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), and bisphenol A (BPA). (blogspot.com)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs): 1000 ppm or less. (smc.eu)
  • Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) are found in over 90% of Americans and children have three times the levels as adults. (savvyrest.com)
  • Very little is known about the health effects of PBDEs in people, but results from some studies suggested an association between PBDE exposure and altered neurodevelopment. (cdc.gov)
  • The primary route of exposure to PBDEs for the general population of the United States is from ingestion of contaminated dust in indoor environments, including both personal residences and work-place environments. (cdc.gov)
  • ingestion of soil can lead to higher PBDEs exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • The primary route of exposure for the PBDEs can enter the body from food, PBDEs in fat tissue, blood, and breast for general population is from ingestion of water, air, and soil. (cdc.gov)
  • major route of exposure to PBDEs. (cdc.gov)
  • More research is needed to assess the human health effects of exposure to PBDEs and PBBs. (cdc.gov)
  • In the Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals (Fourth Report) , CDC scientists measured ten different PBDEs in the blood serum (the clear portion of blood) of at least 1,985 participants aged 12 years and older who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) during 2003-2004. (cdc.gov)
  • When compared with estimates of exposure via both dietary and indoor dust ingestion for Americans, the exposures reported here are consistent with the hypothesis that the difference between European and American body burdens of PBDEs is attributable primarily to greater exposure via dust ingestion for Americans. (uantwerpen.be)
  • In consideration of the significant increases in the serum concentration, inhalation may be more important than food ingestion as the route of human exposure to PBDEs. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Alongside the assessment of brain dosimetry following exposure to PBDEs, in vitro neurotoxicity data provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the risks of prenatal and early life exposures on children neurodevelopment. (hal.science)
  • The Center previously linked exposure to PBDEs with attention problems and lower scores on tests of mental and physical development in children. (medindia.net)
  • Recent research on animals has shown that exposure to low levels of PBDEs can cause permanent neurological and developmental damage including deficits in learning, memory and hearing, changes in behavior, and delays in sensory-motor development. (ewg.org)
  • This happened after CDC data on human exposure to PBDEs showed 10 times higher levels in Americans compared with people in most European nations. (cdc.gov)
  • In the Fourth Report , scientists found that one PBDE, BDE-47, demonstrated the highest levels of the ten different PBDEs measured in the Fourth Report . (cdc.gov)
  • Commercial octaBDE (also known as "Octabrom") is a technical mixture of different PBDE congeners having an average of 7.2 to 7.7 bromine atoms per molecule of diphenyl ether. (wikipedia.org)
  • The term octaBDE alone refers to isomers of octabromodiphenyl ether (PBDE congener numbers 194-205). (wikipedia.org)
  • Polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) concentrations of outdoor and indoor organic films on window glasses were measured at different locations (offices, laboratories, and homes in urban, suburban, rural, and industrial sites) in Izmir, Turkey. (deu.edu.tr)
  • consumer products such as computers and televisions treated with PBDEs can continue to release these substances to air over time. (cdc.gov)
  • March 2017 treated with PBDEs can continue to the body and preferential y to fat tissue. (cdc.gov)
  • People can be exposed to PBDEs and PBBs by eating contaminated foods, especially those with a high fat content, such as fatty fish. (cdc.gov)
  • Human health effects from PBDEs and PBBs at low environmental exposures are unknown. (cdc.gov)
  • By measuring PBDEs and PBBs in blood serum scientists can estimate the amounts of these chemicals that have entered people's bodies. (cdc.gov)
  • Finding measurable amounts of PBDEs and/or PBBs in serum does not imply that the levels of these chemicals cause an adverse health effect. (cdc.gov)
  • Biomonitoring studies of serum PBDEs and PBBs can provide physicians and public health officials with reference values so that they can determine whether people have been exposed to higher levels of PBDEs and/or PBBs than are found in the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • The intake of PBDEs (Ótri-hepta BDEs and BDE 209) in the studied population is influenced mainly by diet. (uantwerpen.be)
  • Various food items, including fish, meat, and dairy products, have been shown to contain low concentrations of PBDEs. (cdc.gov)
  • The concentrations of PBDEs in human blood, breast milk, and body fat indicate that most people are exposed to low levels of these substances. (cdc.gov)
  • Sediments BDE (28, 47, and 183) were detected in both stations at concentrations lower than Federal Environmental Quality Guidelines for PBDEs Environment Canada (150 ng/g) and European Union (310 ng/g). (edu.ng)
  • Atmospheric levels of 43 PCBs, 22 OCPs, and 14 PBDEs were determined in 16 cities at urban and rural sites by passive sampling to generate the first large-scale nationwide dataset of POP residues in Turkey's atmosphere. (lancs.ac.uk)
  • Aquatic animals can be exposed to PCBs and PBDEs through two routes: uptake across the body surface (e.g., gills and/or epidermis), and dietary uptake through the digestive tract ( Bjork, 1995 ). (frontiersin.org)
  • PBDEs and other brominated fire retardants (BFRs) are similar in chemical structure to PCBs, which are still found in the bodies of people and animals more than 20 years after they were removed from commercial products in the United States. (ewg.org)
  • The is the first to show that levels of PBDEs measured in children significantly decreased over a 15-year period between 1998 and 2013, although the chemicals were present in all children tested. (medindia.net)
  • In the environment, "photolysis, anaerobic degradation and metabolism in biota" can cause debromination of octaBDE, which produces PBDEs with fewer bromine atoms "which may have higher toxicity and bioaccumulation potential. (wikipedia.org)
  • PBDEs are mixtures of several people around older electronic by the dose (how much), the There is no definite information on health brominated substances, each one of them equipment that can release PBDEs to the effects of PBDEs in adults. (cdc.gov)
  • The three commercial mixtures of PBDEs, each named for the bromination level of its dominant components, are "PentaBDE," "OctaBDE," and "DecaBDE. (sfei.org)
  • PBDEs have not been found in any of the 1,832 current or former National Priority List (NPL) sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (cdc.gov)
  • The entire family of PBDEs consists of 209 possible substances that are referred to as congeners. (cdc.gov)
  • The predominant congeners in commercial octaBDE are those of heptabromodiphenyl ether and octaBDE. (wikipedia.org)
  • At CDC, Andreas conducts research on PBDEs, which manufacturers add to plastics and foam products to make them less flammable. (cdc.gov)
  • You may be exposed also to PBDEs from eating foods with high fat content, such fatty fish. (cdc.gov)
  • PBDEs) as fatty fish. (cdc.gov)
  • Instead, it is hypothesized that past and episodic current higher intakes of PBDEs are more important determinants of body burden than continuous background exposures at the low levels measured in this study. (uantwerpen.be)
  • This finding may have important implications for gas-particle and gas-film partitioning, transport, and photolytic degradation of atmospheric PBDEs. (deu.edu.tr)
  • We don't know if PBDEs can cause cancer in people, although liver tumors developed in rats and mice that ate extremely large amounts of decaBDE throughout their lifetime. (cdc.gov)
  • Lower-brominated PBDEs bio-concentrate in aquatic organisms. (cdc.gov)
  • Between the 1970s and 2000s, various manufacturers produced and used large amounts of PBDEs. (cdc.gov)
  • The total PBDEs concentration was higher in station 2 (2730.67 ng/g) than station 1 (183.18 ng/g). (edu.ng)
  • The report finds kids are getting a higher dose of PBDEs. (environmentreport.org)
  • We have recently shown in a study that children have higher levels of PBDEs in the 4- to 6-years age range compared with adults," he said. (cdc.gov)
  • The total intake of PBDEs through food and dust for each participant could not be correlated with the corresponding serum concentration. (uantwerpen.be)
  • Fifteen of the seventeen PBDEs for which analysis was performed were found on at least one clothing swatch. (cdc.gov)
  • PBDEs are found widely dispersed in the environment and still persist in existing domestic materials such as clothing and furnishings. (cdc.gov)
  • The PBDEs levels was assessed in sediments and Crabs (Callinectes amnicola) collected from Oro-oguro (stations 1) and Orugbo (stations 2) in Epe lagoon, Nigeria. (edu.ng)
  • Desuden har Lisbeth arbejder med alternativer til dyreforsøg samt etiske aspekter af genetisk testning Med det store europæiske pilotprojekt for human biomonitering i Danmark, DEMOCOPHES er det lykkedes at kortlægge en række eksponeringer hos skolebørn og mødre, i tæt samarbejde med de centrale aktører i Danmark. (ku.dk)
  • Due to their persistence in the environment and evidence of human health effects, pentaBDE, a specific technical mixture of PBDEs was phased out of use in couches, mattresses, carpet padding, and other upholstered products beginning in 2004. (medindia.net)
  • These findings reinforce the decision to phase-out PBDEs from consumer products," says senior author Julie Herbstman, PhD, associate professor of Environmental Health Sciences. (medindia.net)
  • These are the first findings for PBDEs in Bay fish. (ewg.org)
  • Ad hoc working group on C-Octabromodiphenyl ether under the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. (wikipedia.org)
  • geometric mean concentration of PBDEs contaminated soil. (cdc.gov)
  • The total mean concentration of PBDEs ranged from 37.77 - 67.66 ng/g) in station 2 and 1, respectively. (edu.ng)
  • PBDEs than the general population. (cdc.gov)
  • PBDEs can be released into the air, water, and soil at places where they are produced or used. (cdc.gov)
  • eventually PBDEs settle to soil or water. (cdc.gov)
  • In the U.S., the manufacture and import of PBDEs was discontinued by the end of 2013. (cdc.gov)
  • How can PBDEs affect my health? (cdc.gov)
  • There is no definite information on health effects of PBDEs in people. (cdc.gov)
  • however, for each of these "the existing data on toxicological and ecotoxicological effects are fewer than for octabromodiphenyl ether. (wikipedia.org)