Sentences with phrase «organophosphate flame»

Publishing in Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers looked at organophosphate flame retardants (PFRs), studying the urinary concentrations of their metabolites along with outcomes of IVF treatement.

Those were decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE - 209), the most heavily used PBDE, and to a lesser degree, tris (2 - chloroethyl) phosphate (TCEP), an organophosphate flame retardant.

The researchers found that a metabolite of one commonly used organophosphate flame retardant, tris (1,3 - dichloro -2-propyl) phosphate (TDCIPP), occurred at levels 15 times higher in 2014 - 2015 samples than in samples from 2002 - 2003.

Stapleton's lab has documented through several studies that the metabolites of organophosphate flame retardants are frequently showing up in urine.

Not exact matches

Through multiple studies over the past five years, Heather M. Stapleton and colleagues have found that organophosphates are among the most commonly detected flame retardants in furniture and electronics.