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The Outgas Report

must read: toxic dust on every computer sampled
what are pthalates?
5% of people have PBDE levels 7 times higher than the median

Inhaling (watching) TV makes you unhappy (Nov 18)
Danish EPA paper on brominated flame retardants. Discusses BFR emissions. (late 90's)
Lessen your baby's toxic load (Natural News Nov. 14)
Boston University researchers track PBDEs from our living rooms to our hormones (Nov 10 2008)
Toxic flame retardants built into plastic electronics casings such as for televisions, volatilize out of the plastic and into the air. (Oct 31, 2008)
Fire retardant costumes may pose Halloween danger; pbde exposure greater when house is warmer(Oct. 20, 2008)
Study: PVC and Toxic Flame Retardants Still Lurk in New PCs (September 2008)
PVC: the poision plastic (August 2008)
Toxic chemicals found in scented Laundry products. (June 2008)
The dangers of PVC (2008)
Child Safety Seat constituted by 7-9 % toxic flame retardants by weight (may 2008)
Harmful chemical wafts off your TV (May 2008)
Chemical in plastic Bottles, Bisephenol A, Linked To Hormone Issues, Tumors
(CBS News April 2008)
Household dust exposes families, children to toxic levels of brain-damaging flame retardants(January 2007)
Maine toxicologist unfavorable to flame retardant industry removed from EPA panel (March 2008)
Ipods, Iphones loaded With Toxic Chemicals (unknown date)

 

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