Sentences with phrase «newer flame retardant chemicals»

One limitation of the study is that it couldn't determine effects from newer flame retardant chemicals because they are not currently reported by NHANES.

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More than three decades after manufacturers stopped making children's pajamas with a flame retardant suspected of causing cancer, new research suggests the same chemical has become the most widely used fire - resistant compound in upholstered furniture sold throughout the United States.

It's alarming but not surprising that testing routinely finds flame retardants, pesticides, lead, arsenic and other disease - causing chemicals in new mother's breast milk.

Blood levels of a flame retardant have fallen in American children since use of the chemicals was banned in consumer products, a new study finds.

A bill that would make New York the first state in the nation to ban a flame retardant widely identified as a cancer threat, has faced heavy opposition from the chemical industry and may not come to a vote in the current legislative session.

A new study led by biologist R. Thomas Zoeller of the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides «the strongest evidence to date» that endocrine disrupting chemicals such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) found in flame retardant cloth, paint, adhesives and electrical transformers, can interfere with thyroid hormone action in pregnant women and may travel across the placenta to affect the fetus.

The new UTMB study by Dr. Ramkumar Menon, assistant professor in the department of obstetrics and gynecology, in collaboration with Winthrop University Hospital and the Kaiser Permenante Southern California Medical Group, found that pregnant women with higher levels of flame - retardant chemicals in their bodies, namely polybrominated diphenyl ethers, were more likely to deliver their babies early than women with lower levels.

Newsworthy chemicals End of the flammability standard: As health concerns over flame retardants mount, California unveils a new flammability standard that avoids their use in furniture.

Eighty percent of cushions used in car seats, portable cribs and other baby furnishings contain chemical flame retardants that can accumulate in babies» bodies, according to a new study to be published Wednesday.

The implication is that flame retardant chemicals called polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can infiltrate the placenta during pregnancy and affect thyroid hormone activity at the cellular level, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM).

While flame retardants and other chemicals are found in the highest levels in new mattresses, old mattresses have their fair share of problems as well.

That includes 400 new plastic processing facilities, in addition to plastic manufacturing facilities and plastic additive processing facilities, which can produce some significantly harmful chemicals including pthalates and brominated flame retardants.